The Natural History Museum, London’s Antarctic Conservation Blog has been describing some interesting pieces of material culture.
Coop of Positive Ape Index is totally in love with some old tools. Really.
Mister Jalopy salivates over a Christie’s auction that includes a Laughing Drunkard Coin Operated Automaton–and he kindly provides photos. In an earlier post, […]
In the series “Found Objects,” I’ll be sharing sites and blog posts that may be of interest to museum professionals.
The folks at Ideum have begun a central clearinghouse for museum blogs, MuseumBlogs.org. Be sure to check out the other museum blogs listed there, some of which you may have already discovered through the blogroll […]
I’ve been following with some interest the relatively new blog craft research. According to its own description,
Craft Research is the blog for the Craft Research team at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee, UK. The team is conducting a major research project funded by the Art and Humanties Research […]
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It’s not a museum site, but the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has put together a nice slide show, with a voice over by self-described “taxidermologist” and Carnegie Museum of Natural History collections manager Stephen Rogers, on “The Art of Taxidermy.”
This multimedia piece is marked by lovely photography and Rogers’s clear passion for his subject.
That said, […]
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has unveiled a series of podcasts created by students. New media content producer Cassandra Good explains:
A few weeks ago, I wrote about a special project here at SAAM in which Advanced Placement Art History students from the Holton-Arms and Landon Schools here in Washington, D.C. visited our Renwick Gallery […]