#museums are great

[jupiter-dragonsong]

If you were given five million dollars to open and run a museum, what kind of museum would you create, what sort of things would be in it, and why?

Okay. Wow. What a question. I love love love museums, I have been to many museums in many places and always wish I could stay longer. One of my greatest dreams is to be locked in the Louvre and/or Victoria and Albert and/or the London Natural History Museum and/or the National Museum in Edinburgh overnight. Science museums, art museums, all varieties of museum! I love them!!

That being said, I think it would be fun to run a children’s museum. But one adults can enjoy as well, because some of us have not lost our sense of childlike wonder. Here are some ideas:

-Cave Maze. You crawl along in total darkness until you reach a cavern full of glowing crystals. Or a passage with stalactites and glow worms (fiber optic) and dense moss. And finally a room full of cave paintings, with a “fire” in the center to cast shadow puppets and (faux) furs to sit on. Perfect for telling stories.

-SPACE AREA. Fiber-optic star ceiling is a must. All the space and physics goodies. Prism glasses with a spectrometer, gravity well thing, a little Hab where you can look out the windows onto different planets. Heck, let’s have a speculative astrobiology exhibit. Why not?

-On an unrelated note, one of my favorite field trips when I was younger was to the “space center.” It was an elementary school with four whole classrooms built to look and feel like sci-fi spaceships. Everyone was assigned a role on the ship and we carried out a mission together (they had actors in another room who would talk to you over the comms system.) anyway that was one of the cooler things I’ve ever done.

-Ancient Crafts area. Throw pottery, spin wool, weave, make stone tools, turn gourds and seeds and strings into simple instruments. Everyone gets to leave with an object they made!

-My local children’s museum has a really cool Trading Post, where you can trade in shells or minerals or postcards (used to be feathers too, but alas! No more) for points to get something else. So probably one of those too.

-Scale model of whatever city this is in. INCREDIBLY detailed scale model. Little pigeons in the trees, items in the shop windows, moving train if there is a train. The model of the museum has another scale model of the town inside it.

-Some sort of “Leave your Mark” room, an ever-changing art exhibit. Maybe a Lite-Brite room? That could be fun…

-Hall of Languages. No idea what that might entail but it should exist.

-Gift Shop full of objects. The most important part of any museum experience.

If I have more ideas I will share them! Thank you for the ask, this was glorious!

[dasloddl]

ID in alt

we get it, it’s beans ON toast and ants would eat that, also we get it, ants aren’t that loyal to their queen, they kill her off if she’s out of line

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎ Album of seaweed specimens, in scallop shell binding.

Place of origin: Great Britain

Date: mid-19th century

[fridgedeeznuts]

per aspera ad astra

[robinparravel]

Finally watched Night at the Museum for the first time today, and wow, tumblr wasn't lying, that cowboy and that roman sure are gay

[baldwinheights]

Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable was born in Saint-Domingue, Haiti (French colony) during the Haitian Revolution. At some point he settled in the part of North America that is now known as the city of Chicago and was described in historical documents as "a handsome negro" He married a Native American woman, Kitiwaha, and they had two children. In 1779, during the American Revolutionary War, he was arrested by the British on suspicion of being an American Patriot sympathizer. In the early 1780s he worked for the British lieutenant-governor of Michilimackinac on an estate at what is now the city of St. Clair, Michigan north of Detroit. In the late 1700's, Jean-Baptiste was the first person to establish an extensive and prosperous trading settlement in what would become the city of Chicago. Historic documents confirm that his property was right at the mouth of the Chicago River. Many people, however, believe that John Kinzie (a white trader) and his family were the first to settle in the area that is now known as Chicago, and it is true that the Kinzie family were Chicago's first "permanent" European settlers. But the truth is that the Kinzie family purchased their property from a French trader who had purchased it from Jean-Baptiste. He died in August 1818, and because he was a Black man, many people tried to white wash the story of Chicago's founding. But in 1912, after the Great Migration, a plaque commemorating Jean-Baptiste appeared in downtown Chicago on the site of his former home. Later in 1913, a white historian named Dr. Milo Milton Quaife also recognized Jean-Baptiste as the founder of Chicago. And as the years went by, more and more Black notables such as Carter G. Woodson and Langston Hughes began to include Jean-Baptiste in their writings as "the brownskin pioneer who founded the Windy City." In 2009, a bronze bust of Jean-Baptiste was designed and placed in Pioneer Square in Chicago along the Magnificent Mile. There is also a popular museum in Chicago named after him called the DuSable Museum of African American History.

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[eyeofthebrainstorm]

There's something very compelling to me about how Vax and Vex are the Apollo/Artemis trope with a twist. Vex is a huntress and she uses bow and arrows, but while Artemis is goddess of the moon and chaste, Vex is very sensual and ends up under the protection of the sun god. Vax is a theater kid and he's charming, with that main character energy and poetic destiny. But unlike Apollo he's dark and connected to shadows and death. He's also very devoted to a woman who will eventually become a tree.

[unluckedtj]

something bad’s about to happen to me

why i feel this way, i don’t know maybe

[f0restpunk]

[show-us-kaidenshenandoah]

every time i watch anything with him in it (admittingly, predominantly from the Dropout app), i am reminded that Lou Wilson is the most handsome man to have ever lived. like, objectively. he just is. i will hear no arguments for any other person to be ranked higher. Lou Wilson: whose face single-handedly shows humanity can go no higher in beauty. he is THE most attractive man in the world. argue with the wall lmao

[the-spirit-of-yore]

Lady Godiva, John Collier, 1898, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, Great Britain

[mewtwo365]

The Attorney - (based off El Pajaro by Paula Otegui)

So theres a fanart museum project where you draw fanart inspired by pieces of art (this one being El Pajaro). I thought it would be fun, so here's my submission! If you wanna submit one too heres a link to the page that gives all the details!

I tried to put alot of GAA case references in while also keeping the layout and style of El Pajaro!

I hope you enjoy, and have an AWESOME day!!

[pubprob]

sometime in the past few decades movies stopped being movies

whatever happened to throwing a dart at a board and coming up with the most random plots that no one else could ever think of? what happened to weird kids and disgraced scientists needing to come up with 1.21 jig-o-wots (not how it's pronounced btw) to power their time machines? what happened to saving a town by dancing? what happened to stealing the declaration of independence? what happened to dinosaur fossils and wax mannequins coming to life? what happened to towns of anthropomorphic chickens being attacked by aliens in want of acorns? what happened to mean girls getting hit by a bus while storming out of a school left in shambles by teen drama?

what happened to cinema?

[strwbrryfire]

death stranding au thats been knocking around in my head

[isawken]

this is Total Time in Car. train trips don't count. do not count time spent in hotels. if you slept in your car you can put those hours towards your total tho. doesn't matter if you were the one driving or were just a passenger. and put in the tags where you went :)

[clove-pinks]

A few Fresnel lenses from my visit to the National Museum of the Great Lakes! This one is a fourth-order lens from the lighthouse on Ojibwa Island, Lake Michigan, made in 1891.

A cute little fifth-order lens, which was used in Sandusky Harbor, Ohio, in 1891.

No first-order Fresnel lenses were used on the Great Lakes, and only five second-order lenses were placed. One of them was in the Spectacle Reef Lighthouse on Lake Huron in 1873, now in the museum:

My photography doesn't give a true sense of scale; that second-order lens is huge.

There is also a model of the lightship Huron, which is now a museum ship you can visit.