France returns sacred talking drum looted from Côte d’Ivoire over 100 years ago
By Eromo Egbejule in Abidjan
Djidji Ayôkwé was handed to Ivorian officials in Paris earlier this month
#CtedIvoire #France #Museums #Archaeology #Unesco #Anthropology #Africa #Culture #Europe #UnitedNations #Worldnews #EromoEgbejuleinAbidjan
I'm George the Gorilla, the #MuseumMascot for the Nottingham Natural History Museum, #WollatonHall #NottNatHist
I was purchased for the museum at the Paris Exhibition of 1878 for the sum of £100.
Historical #taxidermy animals like me can help us to understand our past.
#Science #Nature #NaturalHistory #Animals #gorillas #museums
When I saw this #IndieWebCarnival prompt, I knew immediately what I’d have to write, but knowing what I had to write I also knew I had to go hard.
https://bix.blog/posts/2026-03-01-on-museum-memories-daniels-story/
Apparently editing your place on google maps from a government building to a museum gets your business account suspended 😅
Anyway, Bloop is hard at work on getting our places in order so it's easier to find us in #PennHills, and recently, #PRT renamed our bus stop to include us! Victory!
#Pittsburgh #PGH #tech #technology #museum #museums #bus #transit
Bloop Museum version 0.7 is now OPEN!
Today is "Walk-in Wednesday" and the first day that we're open all day from 10am to 6pm. Swing on by, #PennHills and #PGH folks! Time to show you all the cool stuff we're working on.
#technology #pittsburgh #retrogaming #retrogames #retrocomputing #tech #museum #museums
Updated #Introduction, part 2.
I am a fan of most #sports, especially #Mets #baseball and #Isles #hockey.
Other interests include #walking, especially #nature walks, #parks, #photography, #museums, #cooking, #transportation and #pedestrian #safety, and #HistoricPreservation.
I am not here for dating or sex. You will be muted or blocked.
'Triumph Of The Will: The Challenge' by James Tissot (1877)
#art #arts #painting #paintings #artist #artists #arthistory #artlover #artlovers #artnet #artgallery #artgalleries #museum #museums #artmuseum #artmuseums
Hi, I'm Jonathan and I've only been using Mastodon for a few days. Like many other newbies to the platform, I started out on one of the large instances but have migrated here.
I've got an interest in #Tech, #Science, #History, #NaturalHistory, #Palaeontolgy, #Archaeology, #Museums, #Art and politics.
I'm not the most interesting person in the world but many of the people I follow will be, so there's that at least.
British Museum’s A.I.-Generated Social Media Posts Spark Online Backlash #Museums #SocialMedia #AI https://news.artnet.com/art-world/british-museum-ai-backlash-2742244
It can feel like our city is losing its artistic core. Along with the shuttering of fellow galleries and museums, we were disheartened to see the loss of SFAI and California College of the Arts (and Crafts). These institutions raised folks who made this place weird and fun, interesting and beautiful.
But we haven’t given up on #SanFrancisco. Our galleries are still free every Thursday: https://letterformarchive.org/visit/
And you can join us for Letterform Live on March 14 to help ensure the Archive remains open to all: https://letterformarchive.org/live/
#SFBA #Museums #Libraries #Archives #GraphicDesign #Typography
model of a procession of offering bearers, Egyptian, c.1981-1975 BC
#art #sculpture #sculptures #history #arthistory #artnet #artlover #artlovers #design #museum #museums #artgallery #artgalleries #artmuseum #artmuseums #arts #artnet
Bloop is just shy of $1100 from $300K on our Phase 1 fundraiser!
Be the one to push us past that mark:
http://givebutter.com/bloopholiday
#museum #museums #PGH #pittsburgh #tech #technology #retrocomputing #retrogaming
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art announced today its plans to return three sculptures to the Government of India, following rigorous provenance research that documented that the sculptures had been removed illegally from temple settings.
https://asia.si.edu/about/press/releases/indian-sculptures-return/
Your move, British Museum. You may not have anything left after you return everything you stole. I look forward to it
#Tainacan: exploration into #civilservice management models for #innovation in #freesoftware.
"This initiative, articulated by the ministry’s Digital Culture sector, led to a technology prototype that could enhance #interoperability among [#digitalcollections of] #archives, #libraries, and #museums."
https://josemurilo.com/2023/09/21/brasiliana-museums-in-brazil-now-have-a-common-place-on-the-web/
#intro 01—Hello #Forkiverse!
I've been working on the Internet in civil service since 1996, and helped building the first .gov.br websites. I though we we're doing good, but we were kind of naive then. Now it's time to get our old Internet back, and from everything I've seen, I came to the conclusion that…we have to "finish building #theFediverse."
Today I work at the Brazilian Institute for #Museums, we are exploring ways to bring #memoryInstitutions into the #Fediverse:
https://josemurilo.com/2025/12/05/museums-in-the-fediverse-experiments-with-tainacan-activitypub-and-websocial/
Bloop got a donation match!
Donations before the end of 2025 will be doubled by an anonymous donor - up to $10,000!
https://givebutter.com/bloopholiday
#tech #museum #museums #technology #retrogaming #retrogames #retrocomputing #pittsburgh #PGH #education #nonprofit
Happy #Holidays from the #museum! Our timeline is almost fully populated and we're building out exhibits as fast as we can. Check out the cool lighting from one of our volunteers!
#Pittsburgh #PGH #museums #technology #retrocomputing #retrogaming
Yoko Ono was an established and influential artist long before she met John Lennon. "Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind," a new exhibition at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art celebrates her near-70-year career, which spans film, music, conceptual and performance art. Read more in @Salon.
In his #swib25 keynote, @brewsterkahle went through the four rights of memory institutions according to the Statement on Digital Rights for Protecting Memory Institutions Online: https://ourfuturememory.org/#rights
There is still a lot of room for more #libraries, #archives and #museums to sign the statement. ;-)
Thinking of committing a museum heist? @npr has some advice, from why jewelry can be a better bet than art, to the reason some museum pieces are vulnerable to theft.
"Christina's World," the famous painting by American artist Andrew Wyeth, went out of MOMA's gallery rotation in 2024, and Adam Neese, the museum's Senior Collections Photographer for Conservation, took the opportunity to take a closer look at it. For the MoMA blog, he writes about the imaging techniques he used to examine the painting, and what they revealed. "We now have a set of detailed visual images, with each stitched image comprising over a billion pixels. These images preserve not just the appearance of the painting, but its material history," he writes.
#AndrewWyeth #Art #ArtHistory #Photography #Culture #Galleries #Museums #MoMA
Geordies! On Friday @amcewen will be at Rise and Design: Design in the Heritage Sector to talk about (and show off) Museum in a Box.
Grab a ticket if you want to find out more about us, and say hello if you go along.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rise-and-design-design-in-the-heritage-sector-tickets-1481391254119
A 19th century Wood-Carved figure of #Ravana from #Bali #Indonesia now at British #Museum London
On #Dussehra today, the Victory of the Good over the Evil
#TheGoldenRoad #HappyDussehra #Ramayana
#IndianHeritage #IndianMythology #History #Art #ArtOfTheDay #MastoArt #Histodond #History #Heritage #IndianHistory #Religion #Hinduism #FestivalsOfIndia #ArtHistory #HinduismAbroad #Museums
This c100 AD 'Bimaran Casket' from #Gandhara #Afghanistan now on view at the ongoing British #Museum exhibition 'Ancient #India: Living Traditions' might represent the earliest datable image of #Buddha represented as a man, as earlier objects represented Him symbolically as a Footprint or a Tree.
#AncientIndia #IndianHistory #Heritage #Buddhism #Religion #IndianHistory #Art #MastoArt #Histodons #Museums #ArtOfTheDay #History
YAY IT'S #PortfolioDay !
I'm a multi-disciplinary designer out of work due to #LongCovid. Recently I have been visualizing and raising understanding of post-viral illness with my project ILLMARKS.
🖼️ I'm looking for places to exhibit them, including: #galleries , #museums , & #medical facilities. I also welcome any #journalists who wish to share!
🙏 Other ways to support:
1. Follow & boost @illmarks or https://www.illmarks.com/
2. My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/daphnemir
