#discovery museum

[barbucomedie]

Steel Helmet of the Northumberland Hussars from the British Empire dated to 1944 on display at the Discovery Museum in Newcastle, England

In 1943 the Northumberland Hussars were one of the many regiments picked for Operation Overlord, the D-Day landings, due to their experience in amphibious landings. They were one of the many cavalry regiments converted to tanks after the First World War, the Northumberland Hussars specifically being an anti-tank regiment. On D-Day they stormed Gold Beach using M10 tank destroyers, one of the many tanks sold by the United States to the Allies.

They not only proved a vital part of the advance on Gold Beach but later went on to support the Guards Armoured Division in Operation Market Garden.

Photographs taken by myself 2024

[stra-tek]

This is one of the greatest things ever. Walk around every single version of the U.S.S. Enterprise in photorealistic 3D in your browser, from the Roddenberry Archive. On a phone you just see wraparound 3D pics. On a PC or laptop you get the full 3D interactive experience. They NEED to make this VR compatible, it'll be beyond words.

There are more Enterprises here than Tumblr will allow me photos of, and more will likely be added.

Here's the TOS Enterprise, which appears in several incarnations ("The Cage", "Where No Man Has Gone Before" and TOS proper as well as TAS with the second turbolift!), has the correct original graphics and is perfect.

This is the bridge from the unmade Star Trek: Phase II series (whose pilot episode "In Thy Image" was rewritten to become Star Trek: The Motion Picture), with it's legendary big comfy command sofa seat and tactical display bubble!

The Motion Picture, such an accurate recreation that there's even a very faint flicker on the rear-projection animated screens as seen in the movie.

Enterprise NX-01, looking exactly as it did in "Broken Bow"

Recognise this? It's the briefing room of Discovery season 2's version of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701. Although at the front of the saucer on the "real" ship, here it's off the second bridge door which may well be where the set was IRL.

I wasn't expecting modern Trek to be represented equally as the originals in this project, but it is. This is the Enterprise from Strange New Worlds, with Pike's Ready Room located just off the bridge.

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. My favourite version of the classic bridge, as a kid I drew all these control panels and stuck them on my bedroom walls. And now I can look around and look at them all close-up! They've even replicated the noticable TVs stuffed into the panels for the more complex animated screens.

The Enterprise-C bridge from "Yesterday's Enterprise". This one has always fascinated me, being a low-budget TV set (formerly the Enterprise-D battle bridge, originally built from the rain-damaged TMP set's back wall and redressed endlessly though TNG) representing TNG's immediate predecessor. In the episode they mostly shoot the back wall and imply the consoles make a huge circle, but here you can see the set's real dimensions and the weirdness of the classic movie helm/nav console in front of the TNG con/ops panels. I love it.

You know how much I love the Kelvin movies, so seeing this was amazing. For some reason the consoles don't have their screens lit (hopefully this'll be fixed soon), but you can see the saucer under the window and it's shiny and amazing.

The last thing I expected was the U.S.S. Titan-A/Enterprise-G bridge, but it's here. And the lights are on.

Other bridges available to explore which I'm out of pictures to show: The Enterprise-D (of course), Enterprise XCV-330 (the ringship, based on concept art for the unmade non-Trek series "Starship"), the Planet of the Titans U.S.S. Enterprise (again, based on concept art for a cool multi-levelled set) and the "launch" U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 (based on the very first piece of TOS bridge set concept art), the Enterprise-E, the Enterprise-F (seen on viewscreen for all of 2 minutes in Picard) and the U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656!

Take a bow lads, you've done good. Now just add VR support!

That link again.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

An open letter from Amelia Zietlow and other former and current students and volunteers supporting the Carthage Institute of Paleontology in their time of hardship. Please read and share:

[littlepawz]

Discovered in a mine in Alberta, Canada in 2011, a fossil of a nodosaur dinosaur is one of the most well-preserved fossils of its kind, down to its skin, scales and even the contents of its stomach. These heavily-armored herbivores walked the Earth between the Late Jurassic and Late Cretaceous periods, with this particular specimen dating back 110 million years. 

Considered one of the major archeological finds from the last decade, the nodosaur is currently on display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta, Canada

[answrs]

[fernflowerss]

Fuck it. Someone give me a hammer, I’m killing Elias Bouchard.

[sailing-on-a-puddle]

In a museum and it says this hoverbike was invented in 2016, but had he just watched Thunderbirds and thought 'I need one of those'?

[in-tenebris-et-in-solitudine]

[nikproxima]

A ship like no other, coming home. -Myself, August 26 2023.

[ltwilliammowett]

Impressions from the IMM Hamburg

[barbucomedie]

Naval Dress Sword from the British Empire dated to the 1900's on display at Discovery Point in Dundee, Scotland

This sword belonged to Captain William Colbeck of the SY Morning, who led the Discovery Relief Expedition in 1902 - 1903. He would return again a year later to help free the RRS Discovery from the ice it was trapped in accompanied by Captain Harry McKay and the RRS Terra Nova.

Photographs taken by myself 2024

[worstjourney]

There are lots of reasons to visit @discoverydundee, but if you do so the morning of Thurs 27 July, I can teach you how to draw! See here for details ...

[bebx]

Johnny Depp for Castle Fine Art

(spencerarmacost1)

[whaleiumsharkspeare]

No one:

Me: *watches Mysteries at the Museum for hours on end because it is so fascinating, learning about all kinds of random stuff I never knew about before*

[getoutofthisplace]

Dear Gus & Magnus,

Mom worked today. We went to the UA-Little Rock Women's Soccer game -- it was good for Gus to see how the pros play. He liked all the headers. But it was hot and Gus eventually asked to leave, so we went downtown to collect the aluminum cans. While there, we walked next door to the Museum of Discovery. We watched a vortex demonstration, which Gus knew all about because of his science camp experience this summer. Magnus was mesmerized by the fire and smoke, etc. Gus did a really good job of taking Mags through the climbing tower or whatever. Literally didn't leave his side and helped him get up/down on the steps that were too big for him. Precious.

Dad.

Little Rock, Arkansas. 9.1.2024 - 2.59pm.

[azvolrien]

I do enjoy a model ship.