#Exhibits

[briery]

Aquamarine with Morganite from Minas Gerais, Brazil. By dusted77 on Instagram.

[u-mspcoll]

"Virginia Woolf seated in an armchair looking toward a window: black and white photograph, undated,” Virginia Woolf Monk’s House photographs, Houghton Library, Harvard University Library.

The Special Collections Research Center is pleased to announce a new exhibit featuring Virginia Woolf's most famous novel, Mrs. Dalloway. Enjoy this display in the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room from September 3 to December 13.

Read more!

[noseysilverfox]

🦆Golden ducks of the IV century BC.😏

🦆Золотые уточки IV века до н.э.😏

[unbfacts]

P.T. Barnum noticed visitors staying too long at his exhibits, so he posted signs reading "This Way to the Egress." Unaware that "Egress" meant "Exit," visitors followed the signs expecting another display and found themselves outside, requiring another ticket to return.

[colleendoran]

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At the SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS on Instagram, see a video of my exhibit COLLEEN DORAN ILLUSTRATES NEIL GAIMAN.

Thanks so much to the Society of Illustrators, Neil Gaiman, and curator Kim Munson.

[sayxit]

Caramel or Precious rock?

I hope both

[bishibaru]

The way I see it museums are basically a giant walk through book where pictures come alive and the text is big enough to hold in your hands

[ilikeit-art]

Van Gogh immersive experience

A Van Gogh immersive experience is any of a number of real-life or virtual reality (VR) exhibits of Vincent van Gogh's paintings. The for-profit events range across venues, organizers, and cities around the world, though the majority have been held in North America in 2021 and 2022. The events are typically set up in large gallery spaces. Images or videos of the artist's works are projected onto walls, ceilings, and floors, sometimes accompanied by animations, narrations, music, or fragrances.

[museumnerdery]

Greetings, fellow travelers! 🌎

On this blog you will find wild stories, stunning photos, quotes, random gossip, whimsy & snark, from staff and visitors to:

Museums 🏛️

Science centers 🔭

Zoos 🐼

Aquariums 🦈

Botanical gardens 🌿

& related institutions.

I have some stories of my own to tell, and I want to hear about your experiences in these places, too!

About me: I just took early retirement after working for more than 25 years as the web designer, editor, and photographer for a natural history museum. I have a BA in anthropology and a master's in museum studies. I had graduate assistantships in the exhibits, entomology, and geology/paleontology departments of the university museum where I was working towards my degree. Before that, I worked as a sort of general assistant in a small science museum. Earlier still, I volunteered with the exhibits team at a science & nature center that also had a small zoo.

My parents were both scientists - mom was a high school biology teacher (and a botanist by training) and dad was a physicist. They both loved to travel, and we did a lot of that when I was a kid. We took a few cross-country road trips, and also took trips to Canada, France, the UK and Switzerland. I've done limited travel on my own to Germany and Denmark. I've been to museums and similar places on most of these trips. I plan to share my thoughts on those experiences here.

Please join me in exploring the world of museums!

[tay1creator]

I went to our state fair and I was looking around the exhibits and found this little gal…

IT SHOULD’VE BEEN ME, I HAVE A BETTER ONE IT SHOULD’VE BEEN ME 😭😭🙏🙏

[theflytrap]

[conservethis]

Working on an exhibit mount for an accordion book that’s a facsimile of a Mexican codex

[u-mspcoll]

Next week: Spotlight on Conservation

Join us next Thursday, 19 September between 4-6p on the 6th floor of Hatcher for our first Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!

This event will feature recent conservation work on Special Collections materials.

The conservation department is responsible for the preservation of the library’s vast holdings of rare and special collection materials. The work they do includes preventive care activities, such as making protective boxes and enclosures for storage and constructing supports for items during exhibitions. They also perform treatments (the conservation term used to describe the repair process) on hundreds of items each year so the materials can be studied and appreciated by students, faculty, and other scholars.

Drop by for refreshments and a chance to chat with conservation colleagues who will be showcasing some of their recent projects, which include a variety of rare book treatments, housing projects that keep materials protected in storage, and figuring out how to care for oddities like a movie prop of a crying newborn baby. 

And be sure to check out the other Third Thursdays at the Library events!

[digitalnewberry]

A Night at Mister Kelly’s

The Newberry's latest exhibit, A Night at Mister Kelly's, explores the iconic Chicago nightclub where patrons could see rising stars in jazz and comedy like Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Mort Sahl, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, and Richard Pryor. For those who can't visit the Newberry in person, you can learn more about Mister Kelly's and see some of the archival images used in the exhibit with this video from curator Alison Hinderliter.

[christreginlave]