Did you know there is a Crochet Museum? It's very cute.
"Among the eclectic collection you’ll find just about every conceivable type of item, represented in crochet form. There are animals like poodles, bears, and unicorns. There are also more abstract designs, like smiley faces and lumpy little creations that are less identifiable."
Inside the outstanding Museum of the Isles at Armadale Castle near Armadale on the Isle of Skye's Sleat Peninsula. Here you can discover the stories of Clan Donald and of the people who lived in the West Highlands through the ages. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/skye/museumoftheisles/index.html
Au #musée des Confluences, j'ai eu la chance de voir travailler la responsable de l'atelier des #moulages : elle réalisait des copies de sécurité d'objets très rares, mais aussi des exemplaires pour des #chercheurs éloignés et pour les médiateurs.
Seul un examen attentif permettait de distinguer la copie de l'original.
Pas de souci avec l'exemplaire de cet homme barbu, copie dédicacée d'une #statue#égyptienne.
Jahrestagung Museumsbund in Aschaffenburg – zum Auftakt sind wir zu Besuch im Kirchnerhaus, dem Geburtshaus Ernst Ludwig Kirchners (der morgen Geburtstag hat!). Seit gut 10 Jahren ist hier ein Museum, das aus einer privaten Initiative heraus entstanden ist. Wir beginnen mit einer Führung und sprechen am Schluss über die Möglichkeiten der digitalen Rekonstruktion eines verlorenen Kirchner-Gemäldes. #DMB24#Museum#Ausstellung
Kontinuität gesichert: das westfälische Rotkreuzmuseum bleibt in Schlangen (Krs. Lippe).
Übrigens ist ein Besuch dort immer sehenswert! #DRK#Museum@drk
As a lawsuit about Marina Abramović’s 2010 MoMA retrospective makes its way through the courts, questions are being raised over museums’ duty towards the people working in boundary-pushing exhibitions. Is the act of harassing a performer akin to vandalizing the art?
On June 8th 2024, we'll have Federico Faggin in the museum and you can be there as well. Between 15:00 and 16:30 we have a meet&greet planned for visitors. Tickets are on sale now at https://www.homecomputermuseum.nl/tickets/
COMMUNITIES AND MUSEUMS IN THE 21st CENTURY. Shared Histories and Climate Action.
Edited by Karen Brown, Alissandra Cummins, Ana S. González Rueda. #ICOM#Routledge#OpenAccess#Book 2023
"Communities and Museums in the 21st Century brings together innovative, multidisciplinary perspectives on contemporary museology and participatory museum practice that contribute to wider debates on museum communities, heritage, and sustainability."
"Communities and Museums in the 21st Century proposes creative and sustainable strategies relevant to a globalised future. With its focus on global societal challenges, this book will appeal to museologists and museum practitioners, as well as those working in heritage studies, cultural studies, memory studies, art history, gender studies, and sustainable development."
Im #podcast „Wissen to listen“ spricht Viola Priesemann über neuronale, soziale und berufliche Netzwerke. Die Physik-Professorin forscht an der Uni Göttingen und am MPI. Hier geht es zum Podcast:
Hey friends, does anyone know what either of these objects are?
(They were found in a deceased relative's jewelry box.)
Please boost for added eyes, thanks! 😊
The lettering on the object on the left says:
Hadley Made in USA
Both ends open up to 90⁰ and the main body expands and contracts about a centimetre.
A clever person has said that the object in the right is a Writescope telescoping mechanical pencil. Thanks!
🧵 1/3 Was an #SocialMedia toll ist: Ich kann Dummbratzen, Schandmaulende und Müll ratzfatz blockieren. Was wir heute im Museumsdienst erlebten, mussten wir mit professionellem Lächeln und einem inneren Stinkefinger quittieren.
Es ist unfassbar, wie fies ein gewisser narzisstischer Menschenschlag sein kann. Ich wundere mich nicht, dass sich viele dem ehrenamtlich nicht aussetzen wollen.
Unsere Profistickerin, über 40 Jahre im Metier, muss sich
🌃 🏛️ Unter dem Motto "Möge die Nacht mit uns sein!" findet heute Abend wieder die Lange Nacht der Museen in Hamburg statt. Auf dem Programm stehen Führungen, Konzerte, Mitmach-Spiele, Lesungen und vieles mehr.
"It is hard to overstate how completely out of touch the #museum sector seems to be with what contemporary technologies make possible, how those possibilities are changing people's expectations and where those expectations now intersect with the museum sector itself. More and more, I find myself asking: What is the functional equivalent of ordering cat litter on the beach for museums?" – https://aaronland.info/weblog/2024/04/26/matrix/#usf
Vu le parti politique et l'historien qui mènent le projet, il faut être bien innocent pour croire que le musée sera national et non pas nationaliste. @histodons
"Getty Museum restitutes ancient bronze head to Turkey" by Elena Goukassian #TheArtNewspaper
"Los Angeles’s J. Paul Getty Museum will return an ancient bronze sculpture of a young man’s head to Turkey after an investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office revealed that it had been looted in the 1960s.
Head From a Statue of a Youth (1st century BC-1st century AD), a bronze head with curly hair and light stubble on the chin, is believed to have been created as a separate cast from the rest of a now-lost life-size body that has never been identified. Researchers know the figure was once whole, because the neck has “evidence of ancient joins on the interior along the break”, according to a press release
, and the eyes—now mere holes in the metal—were “once inlaid with an unknown material”."
I have finally written up the notes from the talk I gave to a #museum studies class at usf recently / this one is long even by standards and covers a lot of ground / it is titled "talking about the pen without talking about the pen" – https://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2024/04/26/matrix/#usf
@mem_somerville It makes me sad to read that this behaviour exists. Could it be a cultural problem?
I volunteer in a French #CulturalHeritage centre + #museum (early 20th c.) with two international #fibreArt festivals + never ever experienced this. Not only that in France ancient #crafts and skills are strongly supported, meanwhile many institutions look for people who can still teach these skills. Our #embroidery group (the youngest 61) can hardly save itself from requests for presentations in