National Museums Scotland Assistant Curator of Modern & Contemporary History, Dr Georgia Vullinghs explores the connection between the North Sea oil industry and a 12th century Saint.
The 2000 year old skull of a Peruvian warrior was found to have been fused together with metal in one of the world's oldest examples of advanced surgery, according to a museum.
Museum of Osteology in Oklahoma says the skull which is in its collection, is reported to have been that of a man who was injured during battle before having some of the earliest forms of surgery to implant a piece of metal in his head to repair the fracture. #surgery#Peru#history#Osteology#museums
Los Angeles has a new museum and its focus is on slime. The Sloomooo Institute will have 13,000 square feet of installations including vibrant slime waterfalls, a DIY slime bar, and a Nickelodeon-style sliming station. Perhaps best of all, this is the museum's fifth location, so you can be pretty sure that the promotional images aren't generated by AI. Thrillist has more details.
It's a dire week for #heritage and #culture in #Wales unfortunately, and the protests and petitions didn't do enough to dissuade the Senedd from severe cuts. 😔
IndieWire's Carole V. Bell says that the movies many of us think of in terms of Black film are from the 1960s, at the earliest. But when curator Doris Berger looked through the archives of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, she found a treasure trove that dated back to the 1890s. She and National Museum of African American History and Culture film and photography curator Dr. Rhea Combs collaborated on “Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898 to 1971,” which is now on display at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Here's a look at what to expect from the exhibition, as well as where to start if you want to explore early Black movies.
The only complete surviving cartoon by Michelangelo will go on show in an exhibition opening at the British Museum this spring (Michelangelo: the last decades, 2 May to 28 July), focused on the final 30 years of the Renaissance master's life.
The show aims to switch attention away from his youthful period of production, throwing light on works made in the years leading up to his death at 88 in 1564.
Is it time to say so long to sushi, and later to laverbread?
Scientists plan ‘seaweed breakthrough’ to restore threatened species.
Seaweeds play a vital role in the modern world, but their existence is under threat.
As climate change, disease and invasive species puts the algae under pressure, an international team of scientists has just started work on a project to protect and restore seaweed stocks
#MuseumsWithoutMen launching today, aims to continue the #feminist project of bringing women's work (& other excluded groups) into the sight of gallery goers & those interested in #art.
This builds on decades of work by Feminist art historians, but Katy Hessel, is right much remains to be done.
Since C15th #women#artists have often been celebrated in their own time & then written out of a male-dominated #arthistory which still shapes #museums' collections & hanging.
Museum and art people will, I think, very much appreciate Patrick Bringley’s All the Beauty in the World (2023). Bringley worked for ten years as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum
of Art in New York City.
It’s a book about restoring ourselves through quiet contemplation and encounters with creative minds and hands. It’s also about how to see beneath the surface of things.
This exquisite collaboration between artist Auriea Harvey and curator Regina Harsanyi is a gift to anyone who wants to learn more about digital art. Unwrapping it reveals virtuoso lessons in Internet art, emulation, 3-D scanning, indie video games, and augmented reality
'Designed to connect the institutions collection like never before with researchers, both locally and globally, schools and community, the current 3D catalogue explores 50+ objects spanning the Guan Di Temple, scrimshaws, Tasmanian bird nests and more.'
"The bill would remove criminal exemptions for #schools, public #libraries, and #museums that distribute or display 'obscene matter' to a minor...
The incredibly short piece of legislation gives no indication of how the new rules would affect paintings or sculptures that feature nude figures, or books that include descriptions or definitions of sexual conduct."
I found this corner for contemplation in the Huntarian.
Exhibitions can sometimes be an overloading sensory experience, so quiet reflection spaces with comfortable seating are a great idea.
Pairing it with related reading material is an added bonus for those who like to dig deeper
The Trembling Museum
Hunterian Art Gallery
2 December 2023-19 May 2024
Finland’s largest art museum, the Athenaeum, has changed the nationality of the artist Ilya Repin from Russian to Ukrainian following a campaign from Ukrainians for the institution to recognize his true heritage
Sign it if you can: these #museums and #libraries are losing so much funding and so many staff members under the proposed cuts, it's absolutely unworkable.