#Libraries & Museums

[academia-lucifer]

@academia-lucifer

[0thello]

Undine (sculpture), 1904 - 1988.

by Isamu Noguchi.

[ur-daily-inspiration]

Museum of the Moon 🌙

[isaiahpadams]

[rottingsong]

˚ ༘ .˚ the ebb and flow of my heartbeat burns my brain . .🌱୭ ˚. ᵎᵎ

my poetry community is accepting members! send me an ask or dm to get invited.

[peacefulandcozy]

ig credit: _bibliotherapy

[amnhnyc]

The Research Library’s Rare Book and Rare Folio Collection includes close to 15,000 volumes dating back to the 15th century. Would you read this rare tome? 🕯️ 👻

[fictionadventurer]

I love libraries.

I'm browsing the WWI shelves (as you do) and notice a very old book about the war. I glance at the first pages that talk about how one day the war will be over and we'll look at this place and not see any signs of the battlefield.

Then it hits me. And I check the publishing date.

This book was printed before the war's end. Not written. Printed. The physical object was created in 1918, while the war in question was raging and the end was as yet uncertain.

Now I'm standing on the other side of the apocalypse, with this physical link to that era in my hands. I'm living proof that the war did end and life did go on and we can all look at the end of the world as a long-ago memory.

Reading old books is cool enough, connecting our minds and hearts through the ideas of people who lived long ago, but there's something extra profound about holding a copy of the book that comes from the time that it was written. It's a physical link between the past and the present connecting me to those long-ago people. A piece of the past come into the future that gives me the chance to almost take the hand of some long-ago reader, to hold something they could have held, connecting not just mentally but physically to their era, a moment of connection across more than a century.

Excuse me while I go weep.

[m1male2]

Biblioteca Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid, España

[escapismsworld]

📍Musée Bourdelle, Paris

[brutalistinteriors]

Penn Museum Library, Philadelphia. Mitchell/Giurgola Associates.

[berlinbrw]

[lostsoulsoc1ety]

[inartchive]

[manessha545]

Librería Babilonia, Professor Atilio Lombardo Museum & Botanical Garden, Montevideo, Uruguay: The Museum has a library specialized in botany and gardening topics, both at school and high school level and in depth. Books are offered for consultation in the room, room and bibliographies. The Professor Atilio Lombardo Museum and Botanical Garden, better known as the Botanical Garden, is located in the El Prado neighborhood of Montevideo, Uruguay, which is administered by the Municipality of Montevideo. Wikipedia

[medievalistsnet]

The Book of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World at the Morgan Library - see these and more at their new exhibition. Details at: