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The Silver Swan automaton, crafted in London around 1773 by clockmaker James Cox and inventor John Joseph Merlin to mimic a real swan's movements and feeding.
It has over 2,000 moving parts and is the main attraction at Bowes Museum, England.
@Rainmaker1973 #globalmuseum #automaton #museums
Explore 3D models of Met masterpieces
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art has made available to the public digital 3D models of a selection of masterpieces in its collection. More than 100 art works have been scanned in ultra-high resolution with portable laser scanners that could image objects that are unmoveable and could not be scanned by traditional machines."
https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75500
"Old Plum" by Kano Sansetsu
Visiting every museum in New York City
A Q&A with Jane August, a content creator on a quest
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/visiting-every-museum-in-new-york-city-a-q-a-with-jane-august
Brooklyn Museum
For #museums, #DigitalSovereignty is not a luxury — it is a #mission.
The concept of digital sovereignty may sound technical. But for #culturalinstitutions it has a very concrete meaning: control over collection data, autonomy over the rules of access, and #guaranteedcontinuity independently of corporate decisions.
When a #museum publishes its collection exclusively on #Instagram, who owns that content?”
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Judge orders #Trump admin to restore #NationalPark changes at sites that 'disparaged' #US
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump admin to restore sites changed under an executive order calling for the nation’s #museums, #parks & #landmarks to not display elements that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.”
#law #censorship #RevisionistHistory #whitewashing #UShistory
https://apnews.com/article/trump-national-parks-lawsuit-c39eee6f77c2e782fc494e2167bf5a39
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15 Great History Museums Every History Lover Must Visit at Least Once
From Cairo to London, these 15 world-class history museums house humanity's most breathtaking treasures, ancient artifacts, and cultural milestones.
https://www.thecollector.com/best-history-museums-world/
Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses
It's been a while (years even) since I updated the old website. Here's a hugely expanded curated list of useful resources and links for #AudioDescription for #museums and #art. First updated page, more to come (probably slowly).
https://brett.coulstock.id.au/audio-description-in-art-and-museums.html
Goddamn this muther f⁕⚠︎er 🤬🤬🤬
#Trump ordered new signs outside a #Smithsonian #museum that warn its depiction of #UShistory is "inaccurate."
Trump claimed the signage at the National Museum of #AmericanHistory would correct what a disputed White House report described as “extreme political activism.”
NO! Your initially #insane brain that has clearly succumbed to #dementia is HELLA wrong you #billionaire #racist #misogynist!
F⁕⚠︎ you!
#law #museums #UShistory
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/arts/design/smithsonian-signs-trump-executive-order.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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"Did you know, there are libraries within some of the country’s major museums, containing a wide range of materials related to the museums’ missions?
Here are some libraries that work collaboratively with museums:" https://action.everylibrary.org/a_library_in_a_museum_what_could_be_better
#Library #Libraries #Services #Resources #Museum #Museums #Educational #Learning #Collaboration #Knowledge
10 Museums Dedicated to History’s Greatest Authors
From Shakespeare to Neruda, explore the world’s best museums dedicated to authors and step inside the homes where literary history was written.
https://www.thecollector.com/museums-dedicated-authors/
Almost all of these authors are at PG:
Yasnaya Polyana. Leo Tolstoy's House.
This is a Ruckers mother-and-child virginal—a 17th-century keyboard instrument with a second, smaller instrument built into it, tuned an octave higher. The “child” could be pulled out to play duets or set on top of the “mother” to add a jangly, buzzing color to the main sound—a Renaissance-era layering trick, centuries before mixing desks. Antwerp instrument makers were doing this in the 1600s.
@BrianRoemmele #globalmuseum #museums #musicalinstruments