#museum exhibit

[nemfrog]

Ptarmigan museum exhibit. The Popular science monthly. 1903.

Internet Archive

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Visitors examine a life-sized, clear plastic model of the "transparent woman" at the American Museum of Natural History, January 16, 1954. The model shows the organs, bones, blood, and lymphatic and nervous systems of the female body. Electricity lights up us parts in a planned sequence. The model, made some years previously in Cologne, Germany, was given to the museum by the recently dissolved American Museum of Health.

Photo: Robert Wands for the AP

[aksiris]

Treasures of the Sarmatians

[sidhewrites]

I hired these things to stare at you

[7pleiades7]

The Morning Walk by John Singer Sargent, (1888), oil on canvas, 67.31 x 50.16 cm, Private Collection

[belovedapollo]

memories from the Alphonse Mucha exhibit in Prague, 2018 〰️ reblog is ok, don’t repost/use

[ornithologyorthodoxy]

3/9/23

[greyam]

Great Bustards - Female and Male (Stuffed)

I took this photo of stuffed birds when I went to the Haslemere Museum in Surrey. It's a photo of two great bustard birds, the left one being female, and the right is male.

I've had to avoid the urge of misspelling bustard a few times. ;)

[brickcollector]

Taking Timelapse videos of me undressing the mannequins but it’s actually just me getting humbled by c 1900 clasps

[themuseumlady]

we are sorting the mannequins! it has started me so many times!

the museum is currently littered with mannequin parts and bodies as we work to sort our exhibit mannequins - which is exciting!! but also extraordinarily unnerving as I keep running into mannequins that are not where I expect them to be

here are some of the less scary (newer) ones next to my archive entrance

unfortunately I can't post the torsos and heads on the first floor (the ones being decommissioned) for privacy reasons. I wish I could though, because it is hard to put into words how genuinely unnerving these figures are.

immediately upon entering the museum each day I am greeted by a distant hoard of torsos, limbs, and heads decorated in obscenely dramatic makeup - the mannequins having been taken apart for ease of transport down the stairs. This is actually my first time seeing the faces of many of these figures, during the exhibit season they were covered with stockings as the makeup did not suit the clothing displayed. Which was frankly also pretty terrifying, seeing just the clear ghost of a hidden face underneath the fabric

a part of me feels bad for the ones we are disposing of?? they have spent their career in this institution, helping us display history, and now their future is wholly unknown

-- but also they are the type of model that do pose a threat to delicate historical clothing (damn you articulated arms that can pinch and tear), so I am glad we have found the means to upgrade --

ANYWHO - despite my terror the museum is once again filled with life! we are preparing for our opening, building exhibits, and diving back in to in-person projects! :)

[wootusart]

At The Museum Of Ratural Ratstory.

The Squeakerthals were an ancient Ratoose that coexisted with the Wooti many millennia ago. Their disappearance remains a mystery to this day although the dominant theory is that they were simply outcompeted by what became the modern Wootus. There is evidence however that at least in some cases they coexisted peacefully and even bred with the Wooti, but those who speak such blasphemy are soon silenced.

[tompuschautz]

Sam Gilliam. (1933 - 2022). BMA, Baltimore.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Workers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art uncrating "The Madonna of the Rosaries," a painting by Caravaggio, on loan from the Austrian government, 1950.

Photo: Wikimedia Commons

[dogandcatcomics]

#repost @the_avam American Visionary Art Museum (Baltimore, Maryland, USA). I do not know the details of this work but appreciate the canine and feline representation. Thanks to @robwilsonwork for the tip and the photo.

[fdrlibrary]

Schedule Update

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum exhibits will have a delayed opening for deep cleaning on the following days:

Wednesday January 22

Friday January 24

Thursday February 6

Friday February 7

On these days the exhibits will be open from 12-5 and the Research Room will be open regular hours by appointment.

[7pleiades7]

Dr. Pozzi at Home (1881) by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), oil on canvas, 201.6 × 102.2 cm, shown here at the Fashioned by Sargent exhibit, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston