#history museum

[er-cryptid]

Wall exhibit of various two-handed broadswords

Danish Middle Ages and Renaissance Exhibit

Danish History Museum

Copenhagen, Denmark

[michael-svetbird]

WHITE-GROUND LEKYTHOS WITH ATHENA: A hidden gem concealed amongst other vessels exhibited in Ashmolean Museum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-ground_technique "The characteristic white background of the lekythos was perhaps intended to evoke ivory." [txt ©AM] Attica 5 BC.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford | AM [Ground fl., "The Greek World"]

Web : https://www.ashmolean.org

FB : https://www.facebook.com/ashmoleanmuseum

IG : @ ashmoleanmuseum

X : @ AshmoleanMuseum

YT : https://www.youtube.com/ashmoleanmuseum

AM | Michael Svetbird phs©msp | 18|08|24 6300X4200 600 [I.,III.] The photographed object is collection item of AM [Non-commercial fair use | No AI | Author rights apply | Sorry for the watermarks]

[arc-hus]

Ningbo Historic Museum, Ningbo, China - Amateur Architecture Studio

[jokingluna]

[adstreier]

museum of unnatural history

[etherealyearning]

Musée Carnavalet, Paris

[wildlifetracker]

Rocks and minerals featured at the Yale Museum of Natural History

[marzipanandminutiae]

good morning Tungles

please send me the worst and/or most ridiculous history myth you've ever heard repeated on a museum tour, by the tour guide

I'll go first: it was the "fire screens existed to keep women's Literal Masks of Wax Makeup from melting and that's where the expression 'saving face' comes from!!!!!" thing, at an 18th-century house museum (I'm not naming and shaming, but should you choose to, I will fully support)

[hyper-coasters]

Fluorite - CaF2; From the Spar Mountain Mine in Rock, Illinois.

Pure Fluorite is actually clear, and it is impurities within the mineral makeup of the crystals that causes the colors. Most common colors are yellow, green, blue, and purple, whereas more rare or less common colors are red, brown, black, and white.

[idohistorysometimes]

Heh, museum work.

[thetimetravelinglady]

For museum professionals, you can answer with how your institution refers to frontline staff who assist with guests, but please make a note in your tags so I know not to count your answer with "the public". Thanks!

(For transparency, I am a museum professional in a history museum. I'm interested in learning more about how the general public refer to certain jobs that we have evolving names for. I'll make a follow up post after the poll ends about the results and any thoughts I have.)

[michael-svetbird]

AMAZONOMACHY Sarcophagus From Soli, Northern Cyprus [found in 1557] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soli,_Cyprus Hellenistic period, 2nd half of the 4th c. BC Marble Provenance and additional data: https://www.khm.at/objektdb/detail/50832

KunstHistorisches Museum, Vienna | KHMV ["Ancient Greece and Rome", Saal XI] • Web : https://www.khm.at/en • FB : https://www.facebook.com/KHMWien • IG : @kunsthistorischesmuseumvienna

KHMV | Michael Svetbird phs©msp | 08|23 6300X4200 600 [I.-VII.] The photographed object is collection item of KHMV, photos are subject to copyright. [non commercial use | sorry for the watermarks]

📸 Part of the "SARCOPHAGI:Reliefs" MSP Online Photo-gallery:

👉 D-ART: https://www.deviantart.com/svetbird1234/gallery/69396046/sarcophagi-reliefs

👉 FB | Album: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.843393602695885&type=3

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[dix-a-la-proprietaire]

Glass

[faithandarisadventures]

Gateway to Pride, Part 6/10 July 14, 2024 Missouri History Museum St. Louis, Missouri

[er-cryptid]

The goddess Sekhmet with a lion’s head.

Sekhmet was a sun and war goddess, the opposite of Bastet, the cat goddess.

Granite.

The temple of Mut in Luxor.

New Kingdom, 1403-1365 BC

National Museum of Denmark, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities

[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!