#52museums

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@Regrann from @52museums - That's it from us @foundlingmuseum - we've loved running the #52museums account and it's been great to answer your questions and read your responses to our Collection. If you'd like to stay in touch follow our main account @foundlingmuseum. For our final post, here are the heart-shaped #tokens that were left by mothers with their babies at the Foundling Hospital. Next up it's @MichenerArt & @glanmorenhs

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#Repost @52museums with @repostapp ・・・ In the opening decades of the 20th century, New York stood as the grandest expression of the country’s technological and financial world dominance. Joseph Stella’s monumental painting The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted (detail pictured) a panoramic, five‐paneled view of 1920s Manhattan, evokes the dizzying dynamism and awe‐inspiring spectacle of the city. Measuring over 22 feet long, The Voice of the City presents key New York landmarks at night, starting on the west side with the Battery, then moving to the middle of the island with Broadway and the skyscrapers, and ending in the east with the Brooklyn Bridge. Below the five panels are tunnels for trains, electricity and plumbing.⠀ ⠀ Stella, who immigrated to New York in 1896, interpreted American technology in religious terms, as conveyed in this work by the altarpiece format and deep, saturated colors that give the appearance of stained glass windows. ⠀ #Museum #52Museums #Newark #NewarkMuseum

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International museum project puts P.E.I. in spotlight

P.E.I. will be featured in an international online project later this month called 52 Museums.

Every week, a different museum or cultural institution takes over the @52museums Instagram page to showcase its exhibits and stories.

The P.E.I. Museum and Heritage Foundation will be showcased April 27 to May 3, said curator Matthew McRae. The @52museums Instagram account has more than 20,000…

[virgilortiz]

Cheers! @52museums ・・・ 🔃 @VirgilOrtiz gifted this piece to @rockwellmuseum after a week-long guest artist position at our sister institution, @corningmuseum. We continue to acquire works by contemporary native artists each year. Ortiz is a great artist and a great #pARTner! . . Virgil Ortiz, Devon/Leader of the Nevid Herd from Pueblo Revolt 1680/2180 Series, 2016. Glass, ceramic, leather. Gift of the artist. 2016.9a-c. . #rockwellmuseum #virgilortiz #glass #MadeInNativeAmerica® #ceramic #leather #americanart #pueblorevolt #cochiti #cochitipueblo #sculpture #contemporaryart

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Good to see @casabatllo on @52museums this week. (at Casa Batlló - Gaudí Barcelona)

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Check out @52Museums this week on Instagram...

Today’s post Instagram:

Not Stratford’s “Blue Period,” but a cyanotype of the Great House, circa 1900, from the collection. Cyanotypes were popular well into the 20th century—most of them were drawings called “blueprints.” 

– Judy, Director of Research & Library Collections

click: https://www.instagram.com/p/BNt653VhJ0H/

[thegetty]

52+ Museums, 52 Weeks

This is the year of collaboration. For all of 2016, over 52 museums will share @52Museums Instagram and Twitter account to give a behind-the-scenes look at museum life around the world.

The first four weeks of the year?

January 4-10: Us! We’re on Instagram @TheGetty  January 11-17: Two archaeological museums, one from Italy and one from the UK @MassaciuccoliRomana & @coriniummuseum January 18-24: A Russian museum and Russian cathedral @state_historical_museum & @saint_basils_cathedral January 25-31: A Connecticut art and natural history museum @brucemuseum

We hope you follow along! (And if you’re feeling extra generous, head over to @52Museum’s account starting tomorrow and give us some love. We’re the first to take over…*scary!*)

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#Repost @52museums with @repostapp ・・・ We're loving this Cross-Written Letter from 1815 ✍ ⠀⠀ Did you know that writing in different directions was a common method of saving paper and money before the first postal stamp was introduced?⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ When mail first became available to everyone in the 17th century, the price of a letter was paid by the receiver and was much higher if additional pages were used. So letters were ‘cross-written’, with writing at two or more different angles. It wasn’t easy to read, but it saved a few pennies. This continued until the Postal Reform in 1840.⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ #postalmuseum #openingsoon #museums #london #newmuseums #history #postalhistory #52museums #exhibitions #heritage #attractions #interactives #galleries #archives #mail #letter #handwriting #crosswriting #writing⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Discover the #unexpected at @thepostalmuseum Opening in London, July 2017

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#Repost @52museums with @repostapp ・・・ The @migration_museum celebrates cultural diversity. This means supporting all diverse communities. #QueeringTheMuseum was a project that engaged Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Queer communities of Adelaide to create an exhibition that shed new light and interpretation on our historical collections. #LGBTIQ #SouthAustralia #52museums #adelaide #migrationmuseum #history #gay #lesbian #transgender #queer #community #beard

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#Repost @52museums with @repostapp ・・・ The 30,000+ artifacts in @AmericanJewishMuseum's collection illustrate more than 360 years of #Jewish life in the US. Take these #seltzer bottles, for instance! 💦 The name "seltzer" originated in Niederselters, Germany, where natural springs produced carbonated water. Jewish #immigrants brought their love of seltzer to the US. During the drink's heyday in the 1920s and 1930s, Jewish seltzer salesmen could be found throughout America offering "two cents plain," the slang for a bottle of seltzer with no syrup. #nationalmuseumofamericanjewishhistory #nmajh #52museums

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#Repost @52museums with @repostapp ・・・ @Vejenkunstmuseum - The Danish painter Jens Vige was a part of the artist colony at Hammer Bakker north of Aalborg in Jutland, where also the sculptor Niels Hansen Jacobsen had a summerhouse. The wide, barren landscapes of northern Jutland were among Vige’s favorite subjects – the inland heaths portrayed in 1901 and the moon lit costal marshlands in 1909. He died young in 1912 – seven years after painting the self-portrait seen here. #52museums #vejenkunstmuseum #vejenartmuseum #denmark #artnouveau #symbolism #art #museum #culture #history #danishmuseums #artist #jensvige #danishpainting #painting #hammerbakker #aalborg

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#Repost @52museums with @repostapp ・・・ And for our first #52museums post, we'd like to introduce you to one of @fineartsbelgium's enormous masterpieces. Our Museum dates back to 1801, a time when Belgium wasn't even Belgium yet. No other than Napoleon Bonaparte himself had it ordered as one France's departmental museums. So what is pictured in this over the top piece of Belgian extravaganza? 🇧🇪 On 24 September 1830, the proclamation "Aux citoyens de Bruxelles..." (To the citizens of Brussels) was signed, establishing a temporary (and very first!) Belgian government. And as always when forming a government in Belgium, it did not come without a good struggle and some unrest. This pyramidal composition provides a synthesis of the main events and actors of the Belgian Revolution, which will eventually lead to our country's independence. 📷 credits @elkevdende . . Gustaaf Wappers, Episode of the September Days 1830, on the Grand Place of Brussels 1835. Commissioned to the artist, Antwerp, 1835. Entered the Museum in 1877. Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels. . . . . . . #wappers #masterpiece #stopandwonder #stop #wander #wonder #belgium #belgique #belgie #revolution #government #belgian #bruxellesmabelle #photography #artoftheday #onthisday #otd #historygeeks #throwback #brusselsmuseums

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#Repost @52museums (@get_repost) ・・・ A new genre of art was born in 1960s Arabia. Hurufiya was inspired by the powerful and ancient symbolism of calligraphy. It was heavily influenced by Islamic art and leans more towards the abstract - creating a timeless art style. Uncover hidden meanings from such artworks at #SharjahArtMuseum. #Art #Calligraphy #SharjahMuseums #Sharjah #UAE #SMDat52Museums

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#Repost @52museums (@get_repost) ・・・ Believe it or not, Arabs in the early 20th century were inspired by local folklore and created countless magical and mysterious artworks that are now decorating the walls of #SharjahArtMuseum. What is your culture's most famous folklore? #Art #Folklore #SharjahMuseums #Sharjah #UAE #SMDat52Museums

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#Repost @52museums with @repostapp ・・・ In addition to #WorldPoetryDay, today is also International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The history of the Holocaust demonstrates that unchecked bigotry and intolerance lead to persecution and violence. @HMHou stands in solidarity with all vulnerable groups, and offers a space to learn and understand the role of a citizen in our global community. Pictured: One of the "Quotations" from the temporary exhibit, "A Celebration of Survival," by Barbara Hines.

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#Repost @52museums with @repostapp ・・・ #5WomenArtists: #HungLiu's (b. 1948) mature painting style combines historical photographs with imagery and motifs from #Chinesepainting, as well as objects like ancient Chinese pottery and bronzes. Liu has written of such works, “I hope to wash my subjects of their ‘otherness’ and reveal them as dignified, even mythic figures on the grander scale of history painting.” [Hung Liu, Sister, 2000] #NMWAHighlights