#North Carolina museum

[ornithologyorthodoxy]

7/23/24

[americangrove]

Some Animal Mounts, Rankin Museum

[tammuz]

Animal-shaped pouring vessel from the Parthian period, dating back to 3rd-1st century BCE. Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.

Photo by Babylon Chronicle

[paleotanks]

Terror of the South, home of Fran the Acrocanthosaurus and some fleshy prey

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

[davidnajewiczphotography]

Reflecting Pool, North Carolina Museum of Art

[7pleiades7]

Lucrezia de’ Medici (1545–1561) (c. 1560), by Alessandro Allori (Italian, 1535–1607), oil on panel, 32 1/2 x 24 3/4 inches (82.6 x 62.9 centimeters), The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

[wandering-jana]

An A-frame barn. Relocated to the Mountain Farm Museum.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina

Sept. 2021

[bunniesloveanimals]

So so so SHOUTOUT TO THE NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE!!!

Tw for a dead animal and a lot of beetles later down

I've just returned home from a trip there to see the dueling dinosaurs exhibit which is SO FUCKING COOL!!! They're actively working on the fossils right there in front of you, you're in the same room as this amazing piece of history!!!

Most of the tyrannosaur's body inside the lab, the tail has been separated. Incase you don't know, the dueling dinosaurs is a fossil that was found in Montana. The fossil contains the remains of an old diseased triceratops and a young unknown tyrannosaur species together. It's unknown currently how they ended up here but a popular theory is that they fell in battle, the tyrannosaur attacking the triceratops before suffering a fatal hit to the head, the triceratops falling soon after from weakness and the attack. That's why it has been named the dueling dinosaurs.

Reconstruction of the fossil.

Triceratops foot on display outside the lab.

Triceratops skull inside the lab.

Flowers outside the museum with a bee!!! One thing the museum also does is it has gardens of native flowers for bees to pollinate outside. Because of this you can always find atleast a couppe bees flying around the flowers that they know and love.

Beetles eating away a carcass. They also utilize beetles to eat away at the bodies of dead animals, as not to waste the animals remains while also being able to get the skeleton, which I think is such a good way to do it.

I forgot what the said this was but it looks like part of the triceratops' leg. I genuinely love it at the museum so much and if you have the time I definitely recommend going. Museum admissions and tickets to the exhibit are both free and absolutely worth the trip.

[jasonlowder]

Morrow Mountain Museum of History

[angel-braids]

[yearningforunity]

Sunday School. Holiness Church (Jackson)

Sunday School, Holiness Church, Jackson, Mississippi

 ca. 1930–1949

Artist: Eudora Welty

[artemlegere-art]

Capriccio: The Rialto Bridge and The Church of S. Giorgio Maggiore

Artist: Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) (Italian, 1697-1768)

Classification: Painting

Genre: Landscape Painting

Date: c. 1750

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC

Trained by his father, a painter of theatrical scenery, Canaletto specialized in views of his native Venice. By the 1730s, he was one of the most successful artists in Europe, his most avid patrons being the English aristocrats who came to Venice on their ‘Grand Tours’ of Europe and commissioned painted views of the city as souvenirs. Canaletto’s precise technique helped to invest these views with the illusion of topographical accuracy. A contemporary wrote: “He paints with such accuracy and cunning that the eye is deceived and truly believes that it is reality it sees, not a painting.” However, the artist often subtly adjusted architectural details, viewpoints, and topography to create a more picturesque and harmonious work of art; on occasion, he took even greater artistic license. This painting combines in a single setting three famous landmarks from different areas of Venice: the Rialto Bridge and the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, located on an island at the entrance to the Grand Canal. The Italian word capriccio, meaning whim or fancy, is used to describe these fanciful compositions.

[americangrove]

Projectile Points, Rankin Museum

[travelella]

Biltmore Estate, Asheville, North Carolina.

[davidnajewiczphotography]

Outdoor sculpture, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

[lonestarbattleship]

Battleship North Carolina at Wilmington, North Carolina, October 1964.

UNC: P081_PTCM2_007143_08