#canterbury museum

[tealin]

The bust of Scott from the Canterbury Museum is still on display! While the renovation is ongoing they've got a pop-up museum with some favourite pieces on display, and Scott made the cut : ) along with a few other Antarctic ephemera

There he is! Much better lighting than in the museum, too. Sadly he didn't make the cut at the new NPG, though Shackleton is hung in the WWI gallery, for maximum irony!

[worstjourney]

The best thing about this, to me, is that they mount him just at the right height to encourage rubbing his nose.

I hope this feature is maintained in the renovation ...

where's that post about the noses of dog statues turning gold from all the pats, i found the best statue in the christchurch museum

polar explorer roald amundsen, everyone

[dec0mposing]

Canterbury Museum, Christchurch New Zealand (n.d.)

[m1male2]

Canterbury, England

[bisakimia]

Oksidasi Bayam Menghasilkan Racun!

Reaksi Redoks menyebabkan zat gizi dalam bayam berubah menjadi racun. Tak perlu diragukan lagi, bayam adalah sayuran yang sangat bermanfaat bagi tubuh kita. Zat gizi yang terkandung dalam bayam sangat komplit untuk memenuhi asupan gizi yang kita perlukan. Maka tak heran jika dari kecil, orang tua kita selalu menganjurkan kita untuk makan bayam. Bahkan beberapa orang tua harus memutar otak…

[insidecroydon]

How Croydon alderman saved 'Golden Book' from the Vikings

Bloody slaughter: imagine one of the big, set-piece scenes from Game of Thrones (minus the dragons and giants), and you get an idea of what the Battle of Aclea might have looked like. The exact site of the battle in the Surrey Hills remains a mystery lost to history SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Danish invaders on the rampage, a Wessex king winning a huge battle and the most opulent of all the surviving…

[humanspaceflightday]

NEW ZEALAND - Yuri’s Night 2024 International Space Event at the Air Force Museum.

Yuri’s Night 2024 at the Air Force Museum of NZ, an International Space Celebration; Come along and see Canterbury’s Aerospace on display, completely free; Turn up any time throughout the day (below for some workshop times)

– Planetarium tours – Mars Rover display – Build-Your-Own-Rocket workshops – Static Rocket displays – Giveaways (from stickers to aerospace collectibles) – Astronomical displays – Wind Tunnel exhibit – Build a Shuttle – Send a postcard to space (Really!) – watch a rocket launch (weather dependant) – Touch a piece of rocket that’s returned from Space! – Spot Prizes of cool aerospace swag! – and so much more!

Yuri Gagarin became the first human in Space on April 12th 1961. Fast forward 40 years and “Yuri’s Night” was created as an international space party, celebrating everything aerospace!

– Rocket Workshops at 10am and 2pm (spaces limited) – Rocket Launch at 1pm weather dependant – Planetarium tour numbers subject to space constraints

– Therese Angelo Wing of the Museum (hang a left and go past the cafe upon entering)

Proudly brought to you by the Christchurch Rocketeers, Royal Aeronautical Society of NZ, and the Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Event displays volunteered by: – Christchurch Rocketeers – Royal Aeronautical Society of NZ – Air Force Museum of NZ – Canterbury Astronomical Society – Aerospace New Zealand/ Aotearoa Aerospace Academy – House of Science – UC Aerospace Club – SpacewardBoundNZ – Canterbury Astronomical Society

Yuri’s Night 2024 International Space Event WHERE: 2024-Apr-13 @ 09:30 AM - 2024-Apr-13 @ 04:00 PM WHEN: Air Force Museum of New Zealand Harvard Avenue, Wigram, Christchurch, New Zealand

[spilladabalia]

For Breakfast - Heavy Horse Museum

[mjalford98]

For World Book Day, here's a throwback to a year & a half ago, and a building that could just as well have come out of a novel, which is used as a public library, and located in a city that is itself the setting of one of the English language's greatest classics. Designed in the Tudor Revival style by A H Campbell and opening 2 years later, the building was primarily funded by Dr James George Beaney, an ordinary man of Canterbury birth who studied medicine before spending a prosperous professional life in Australia. On his death, he left money to the city of Canterbury for an institute to be established to provide amenities for the working class of the city, with the city council choosing to move the existing public museum and library into the new building from the start. Now Grade II listed, it was refurbished in 2009 as part of a wider project to transform the city centre into the vibrant cultural hub that it is today, with the quirky architecture of the Beaney building at once blending with the historic character of the street, while dropping a hint of modernity that almost has the colourful street decoration surrounding it seem a little less out of place than might be expected of a building of older, more formal design. It's playful while still working from timeless principles that retain a degree of human charm and blend in with the surrounding built environment. https://www.instagram.com/p/CpTaBrzo-GQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[dianynavody]

creating the sun path

[english-history-trip]

Heraldic jupon, or surcoat, belonging to Edward "The Black Prince" of Woodstock, Prince of Wales, hung above his tomb in Canterbury Cathedral (currently at the V&A museum).

Contemporary illustrations of the prince show how it would have appeared in the 14th century: the red lions of the Plantagenets are quartered with the fleurs-de-lys of France, representing his father Edward III's claim to the throne, while the three-pointed label across the top denoted him as the eldest son.

[worstjourney]

NEW PHOTOS KLAXON

Or at least new to me!

The Canterbury Museum in Christchurch has the photos of J.R. Dennistoun, friend of the Expedition and the Kiwi who joined the Terra Nova for her relief trip in 1911, in charge of the mules.

Annoyingly I can't copy/paste the link to the collection directly, but if you go here and click on an object, then scroll down on the object details to "Named collection: DENNISTOUN, James R" you can click on his name and see all his stuff that way. I think some of the photos might have been taken by others, such as the product placement ones, but our pal JRD has been quite good at labelling people!

[blueiscoool]

Archaeologists Find Statue of the Roman Sea God Triton in Mausoleum

Archaeologists have uncovered a Roman Statue of Triton during excavations in preparation for a housing development in Kent, England.

Archaeologists from the Canterbury Archaeological Trust (CAT) have discovered artifacts, including a mausoleum which is to be buried within a roundabout, which are more than 1,700 years old during an investigative dig related to a new housing development close to London Road in Teynham.

Robert Masefield, Director for RPS, said: “We expected interesting Roman archaeology, perhaps a cemetery, but the finds including the lively and unique statue of a Triton and the mausoleum remains have by far exceeded that. These finds are now part of Teynham’s local legacy and the nations rich Roman story. Further study will place the findings in their full historical context.”

The area, which is being built on by Moat Homes and Chartway Partnerships Group for its Frognal Lane development, follows the ancient Roman Watling Street and during an initial site evaluation, fragments of chalk wall foundations and Roman cremation burials were discovered. As a result, Swale Council, with advice from Kent County Council Heritage Conservation, required a 0.5-hectare archaeological excavation at the site.

The Canterbury Archaeological Trust (CAT) was tasked with leading the dig, which revealed elements of a 30m square walled enclosure surrounding a c.7m square structure. Further excavations revealed that the structure is a Roman mausoleum containing a Roman coin dating from around 320 to 330 AD. The site also included Roman, and possibly later, burials with various grave goods.

However, the highlight of the findings was the discovery of a stone statue, representing the sea god Triton.

The Triton statue is substantial, appropriately 70cm (27.5 inches tall) and 70cm wide. It weighs more than 132lb (60kg). Archaeologists did not need to dig far. It was only 1.3 feet (40cm) below ground.

In Roman mythology, Triton was the son of Neptune, the god of the sea. The unique stone statue depicts Triton – a merman with the torso of a man and the tail of a fish – riding on a sea monster.

As a demi-god, he could calm the waves by blowing on his conch shell, which he appears to be holding in the uncovered sculpture. That part has been broken off, but the artifact is otherwise in incredible condition. It was carved between the late first century and second century AD.

Dr. Richard Hobbs, senior curator of Roman Britain at the British Museum, told MailOnline it is ‘spectacular’.

He said that, although a few fragments of Triton sculptures are known from Roman Britain, ‘nothing quite like this has been discovered before’.

Excavations are continuing at the site.

By Leman Altuntaş.

[danielarlngton]

A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew's Day, Refusing to Shield Himself from Danger by Wearing the Roman Catholic Badge (1851–52) is the full, exhibited title of a painting by John Everett Millais, and was produced at the height of his Pre-Raphaelite period. It was accompanied, at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1852, with a long quote reading: "When the clock of the Palais de Justice shall sound upon the great bell, at daybreak, then each good Catholic must bind a strip of white linen round his arm, and place a fair white cross in his cap. —The order of the Duke of Guise."

It depicts a pair of young lovers and is given a dramatic twist because the woman, who is Catholic, is attempting to get her beloved, who is Protestant, to wear the white armband declaring allegiance to Catholicism. The young man firmly pulls off the armband at the same time that he gently embraces his lover, and stares into her pleading eyes. The incident refers to the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre on August 24, 1572, when around 3,000 French Protestants (Huguenots) were murdered in Paris, with around 20,000 massacred across the rest of France. A small number of Protestants escaped from the city through subterfuge by wearing white armbands. Millais had initially planned simply to depict lovers in a less dire predicament, but supposedly had been persuaded by his Pre-Raphaelite colleague William Holman Hunt that the subject was too trite. After seeing Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Les Huguenots of 1836 at Covent Garden, which tells the story of the massacre, Millais adapted the painting to refer to the event. In the opera, Valentine attempts unsuccessfully to get her lover Raoul to wear the armband. The choice of a pro-Protestant subject was also significant because the Pre-Raphaelites had previously been attacked for their alleged sympathies to the Oxford Movement and to Catholicism. Millais painted the majority of the background near Ewell in Surrey in the late summer and autumn of 1851, while he and Hunt were living at Worcester Park Farm. It was from a brick wall adjoining an orchard. Some of the flowers depicted in the scene may have been chosen because of the contemporary interest in the so-called language of flowers. The blue Canterbury Bells at the left, for example, can stand for faith and constancy. Returning to London after the weather turned too cold to work out-of-doors in November, he painted in the figures: the face of the man was from that of Millais's family friend Arthur Lemprière, and the woman was posed for by Anne Ryan. The painting was exhibited with Ophelia and his portrait of Mrs. Coventry Patmore (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1852, and helped to change attitudes towards the Pre-Raphaelites. Tom Taylor wrote an extremely positive review in Punch. It was produced as a reproductive print by the dealer D. White and engraved in mezzotint by Thomas Oldham Barlow in 1856. This became Millais's first major popular success in this medium, and the artist went on to produce a number of other paintings on similar subjects to serve a growing middle class market for engravings. These include The Order of Release, 1746 (Tate, London), The Proscribed Royalist, 1651 (Lord Lloyd-Webber Collection), and The Black Brunswicker (Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight). All were successfully engraved. There are smaller watercolor versions of the picture in The Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford, the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, and a reduced oil replica in the Lord Lloyd-Webber Collection, all by Millais.

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Catedral de Canterbury UK

[desimonewayland]

Dame Elisabeth Frink

The Merchant's Tale - Series: The Canterbury Tales II

May and Damyan making love in a tree while Januarie, May's blind husband stands beneath. 1972 Etching and aquatint

British Museum