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The @BritishMuseum has launched a “collecting and empire trail” within the museum to relive its inglorious colonial and imperialist pasthttps://www.britishmuseum.org/visit/object-trails/collecting-and-empire-trail But the colonial trail

Today I return part-time to @britishmuseum to work on the wonderful #WaddesdonBequest. Hello again Sigismund Pfinzing! Sigismund who? Sigismund (also Sigmund) was born in Nuremberg in 1479, the son of

#MuseumFromHomeWhilst we’re self isolating, some of us museum weirdos have decided to make quick videos about our favourite museum artefacts. So if you can’t go to a museum, let’s bring

Hands of Ishtar, a rather interesting and enigmatic Assyrian object are making the rounds on Twitter today. I wanted to show a couple cool examples of these objects from different

Visiting a museum in London? Why not walk and merge the journey into the visit?Our 40-min route from Victoria Station to the @BritishMuseum takes in beautiful, historic streets packed with

Prof Susan Oosthuizen

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Just so lovely - a rare copper-alloy bucket found at Breamore, Hants., made by a master craftsman, perhaps in Antioch, in the 6thC and sent across early #medieval Europe (1)https://hampshirearchaeology.wordpress.com/2015/09/21/buried-in-tim

Las Plumas de Sīmurgh

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If there's a piece of art worth knowing from Ancient #Mesopotamia, at least for us, is the so-called Queen's Lyre, currently at @britishmuseum Do you want to know all of

How did funerary reliefs and other ancient artifacts from Palmyra make their way around the world? And what, if anything, should be done about it today?A thread for #MuseumsUnlocked Left:

Dr Laura McAtackney

A tale of two biographies? Sir Hans Sloane, founder of the British Museum, interior collector and slave ownerHere is the rather partial biography from RTE / EPIC: all discoveries, collections

LuciaTantardini

A penny if you can tweet a more confidently virtuoso #silverpoint #drawing than #Leonardo's Warrior.Leonardo, Bust of a Warrior, ca. 1475-80, silverpoint on prepared paper @britishmuseum #DisegnoDiary #arte Great thread

Dr Caitlin Green

A 7th-century Anglo-Saxon glass drinking horn, from Rainham, London: https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=87164&partId=1 A 6th-century glass drinking horn from Rommersheim grav

Reflecting on the Docklands news. Respect to @MuseumofLondon Front of House for handling a difficult situation. Respect to curators who it appears are permanently removing stolen African objects from the

F. Dibble Citations

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This thread provides citations for images and reading in @FlintDibble's thread on anatomical votiveshttps://twitter.com/FlintDibble/status/1245696749513121792 1/ Etruscan votive torso with incision showing internal organs @GettyMuseum: https://ww

Dorset History Centre

The final #ArchiveZ of the week is F for fencing, and we want to use it to tell something of the remarkable tale of Chevalier D’Eon, mentioned here in this

Gold looted from the Asante Royal Palace of Kumasi by British soldiers led by Field Marshal Garnet Wolseley in 1874, now in the @britishmuseum. Similar collections are held in many

I just transcribed the text. Perry discusses the Eddie Burrup affair and the work of Indigenous artists in the context of the excellent 2013 @royalacademy exhibition Australia. Here Indigenous artists