Some friends have started this petition to support me and to hold the British Museum accountable for their use of my translations of Qiu Jin's poetry without permission, credit, or pay in an exhibit for over a month.
The Remains of Thousands of #Native Americans Were Returned to #Tribes This Year
Following decades of #Indigenous activism and the 2023 publication of ProPublica’s “Repatriation Project,” federal officials have seen more activity leading to the return of ancestral remains to tribal nations than any other year since 1990.
I have the wonderful privilege of giving interactive art museum tours to young kids. The other day I asked a quiet 2nd grader who was enthralled by a Dorothea Lange photo from the Great Depression what he thought was going on in the photo. His interpretation was thoughtful and perceptive. After praising his response he came back with “my grandma taught me to look for the secrets in art.” Yay for grandmothers! #Art#Kids#Grandmothers#Museums#Photography
Locals in the historic Fort Worth neighborhood were interested in the proposed Juneteenth museum ... but what they really needed was a grocery store, a health clinic and a pharmacy. Architects and civic leaders worked together to make the new site a part of the community.
Hello, Myth Lovers! To celebrate International #MuseumDay, we'd love to see your posts about #museums! Which museums have great mythological art? Which are your favourite artifacts? Do you have a favourite #museum? Where have you seen an amazing work of art related to mythology? Use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts!
I'm a multi-disciplinary designer out of work due to #LongCovid. Recently I have been visualizing and raising understanding of post-viral illness with my project ILLMARKS.
Appeal: does anyone have any juicy photos of museum/collection textiles that I may use in a training session? (With credit, obviously.)
I'm after:
👔 packed/stored textiles (stored well or poorly, your choice!)
👚 examples of different types of historic and modern textiles
👗 examples of damage to textiles (stains, tears, pest nibbles, anything!)
🧶 identified fibres under a microscope
#DelhiRains
It is raining heavily today too, breaking a 41 year record. Just 2 days of #Monsoon#Rain has completed more than its average for #Delhi for the entire month of July!
Since I can't go outside, I might as well stay indoors and play Yo-yo.
(Lonely people must amuse themselves).
Brazilian #museums join the #Fediverse:
"…a #socialnetwork instance dedicated to hosting museums and public #memory institutions…to preserve data from audience interactions as a digital collection for research purposes."
We Carry the Burden of Repatriating Our Ancestors. Here’s What It’s Like to Report on the Process as an #Indigenous Journalist.
Mary Hudetz describes the financial cost and emotional distress that #tribal communities face as they continue to wait for the return of the remains of their ancestors, thousands of which are held in #museums across the country.
New Federal Rules Aim to Speed Repatriations of #Native Remains and Burial Items
The new Interior Department #regulations address long-criticized loopholes and issues identified by ProPublica’s reporting. The updated rules will go into effect in 2024.
Euronews's David Mouriquand has had it with "immersive exhibitions" — magnified replicas of paintings projected onto gallery walls. He says of the Van Gogh show he saw, "[It] made me want to forcibly shove fistfuls of sunflowers down my throat to make the experience end quicker," and describing the Klimt exhibition in Warsaw as "atrocious." Here's his no-holds-barred essay (read: rant) on the subject. What do you think of immersive exhibitions? Explain why in the comments.
New open access book: The India Museum Revisited (UCL Press).
The museum of the East India Company formed, for a large part of the nineteenth century, one of the sights of London. In recent years, little has been remembered of it
Free download: https://bit.ly/45gkjO8 #museums#IndiaMuseum
Museum guards spend hours with the artifacts they watch over, so of course they’re going to have opinions about #art and #curation. Get to know 2 of the guards who participated in the Baltimore Museum of Art's 2022 show, “Guarding the Art.” They’re not just protecting the art; they’re in a relationship with it and how people react to it. Just talking about the profound impact of art moved one guard to tears, and for that alone, I love this interview.
I'm looking for #museums to add to @ExhibitExplorer - if anyone knows of a #museum with a good open API for their catalogue please let me know.
I'd especially like ones outside the angloshere/Western Europe for variety, but any suggestions will be added to my list, my research tends to cover English and European ones but I can't tell if it's because that's what searches show up or they are more likely to have public APIs. I don't mind if I have to request a key.
Sadly the #Powerhouse museum seems to have deactivated their API so there's now a hole to fill. If you happen to know who to ask about that, it'd be also useful, my email went unanswered.
When I'm not taking photos, I go the museum two days a week. (Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston)
In a museum's collection, every item should be registered and has an entry in a database that includes a description, dimensions, material, method/place of production, its history, where it came from. In theory, in practice not so much especially in a large museum that predates computers.
So, I am working though a lot of these objects and updating their records to something useful.
Now, the thing about registering items is a lot of obscure information we gather that is usually not much good for anything outside of trivia night is actually. Things like:
What's the difference between a medal and medallion?
A flag and a banner?
What is this?
Why is the internet so useless at telling me what something is?
What is the difference between a mug and a measure anyway?
What's the capacity of a gill? A pint in mls? Why do gallon and gill have Wikipdia pages but not pint?
Important stuff
Hello, Mastodon! May I introduce myself? I'm the Washington State Ski and Snowboard Museum, located east of #Seattle on I-90. My interests include #education, #skiing, #snowboarding, and #history. And, like most Washingtonians, coffee and Sasquatch.
Sparked by its exhibit "Wampum: Beads of Diplomacy," the McCord Museum in Montreal is organizing "Around Wampum: Histories and Perspectives Symposium" on February 22-23. It's both in-person and online, in French and English (with simultaneous translation) and features an excellent slate of speakers. Definitely worth checking out. @histodons
The Vent Haven Museum in Fort Mitchell, Ky., houses the world's largest collection of ventriloquism dummies. In this Atlas Obscura podcast, Dylan Thuras takes you to meet the 500 residents of the museum, including a replica of Charlie McCarthy, who was responsible for Mae West being banned from NBC radio for 12 years. Here's a link to the podcast, and to an article that describes what you'll find in the museum.
It's aimed at anyone who fits the aforementioned bill and is interesting in exploring the mathematical potential of their stories, objects and exhibitions, with participation in Maths Week Scotland in mind.
Ikhlas was from #Ethiopia#Africa who came to #India in c1600 CE
Many of the immigrants who came from there rose to important positions in the courts of various courts of the #Indian Kingdoms.