#Museum

You tried to disown some of your Hindu scriptures & practices as outdated and irrelevant -- what happened next ? They started coming for Ram & Krishna, Bhagavad Gita, Mangalsutra,
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The opening sequence of Walt Disney's Hercules (1997) is filled with depictions of actual works of physical art — an appreciation thread with photos of their real-life objects. Let's start
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#MuseumsUnlocked - LGBTQ+ ArtefactsReally, it had to be one artefact for this post: the Warren Cup. A Roman silver stemmed drinking cup, ca. 15 BC-AD 15, showing two scenes of
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Easter weekend in lockdown, a thread of suggestions. Any more welcome. Major museums and art galleries are putting lots more stuff to look at and read about on their websites.
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Check out these shots of the new temporary exhibition “Glorious Victories: Between Myth & History,” just opened at the @namuseumathens!The exhibition commemorates 2,500 years since Thermopylae & Salamis & features
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THREAD: So this one time i reached out to James Alefantis about an interview And he responded He said no to the interview and that was that.... but then i
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I didn’t share some images of the new & wonderful @windermerejetty museum from a few weeks ago. They’ve been coping well with keeping visitors safe & have possibly one of
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THREAD on @NSF PostdocsThe new NSF Postdoc Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) solicitation was recently released:https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf206021/x This announcement was met with much excitement (totally w
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Herman Melville’s farmhouse at Arrowhead, in Pittsfield in western Massachusetts, where he lived from 1850 to 1863 and wrote the novel “Moby Dick”. The barn where Herman Melville used to
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I see the auction houses aren't the only ones laundering things:The British press continues to launder the British Museum's reputation as a fighter against looted antiquities.https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/sep/27/ancient-s
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10 must visit Tourist Attractions in Lagos after this Corona lockdown.Part 2 6. Terra Kulture: most people who visit here probably do so because they came to watch a stage
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Thread: The ÂŁ30m redeveloped @StFagans_Museum - proud to be a @HLFCymru @heritagelottery committee member and proud to be Welsh. Diolch yn fawr 1/4 New Galleries, New welcoming and flexible
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Just spent some time in downtown Ottawa and this is what I saw. Tell me Twitter peeps... what do YOU see? Need I mention the people had no faces and
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Happy Labor Day. Beware the Company Town—it’s not just an economic system, but a political one.https://time.com/4020710/first-labor-day/ “Pullman gave bricks-and-mortar expression to his sense of the immutability of the social order.
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On 16 October 1971, the Shahyad Tower was inaugurated in Tehran. In the tower’s museum, the Cyrus Cylinder was on display, loaned by the British Museum for the occasion. There’s
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Haniwa Helper // Day 13Overseas HaniwaI’m always keen on spotting haniwa in international collections and I’ve found haniwa at museums in New York, D.C., Florida, London, and Honolulu. It’s interesting
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