Small Museums Canada

From gophers to coal to eerie dolls: Check out these rural museums near Calgary! cbc.ca/news/canada/ca… #smallmuseums #ruralmuseums #alberta #canada

You might be surprised by the "Top 10 Myths about #HistoricPreservation" by Ken Bernstein, principal city planner and manager at Office of Historic Resources @Planning4LA. preservationsacramento.org/preservation-m…

"For millennia, people slept in two shifts – once in the evening, and once in the morning. But why? And how did the habit disappear?" bbc.com/future/article… #speeping #history #sleephistory

@GreatSmokyNPS @ClemsonUniv @CofC Leicester B. Holland Prize #3 (from 2013) shows the Turn-of-River lenticular bridge, built in 1893 in Stamford, CT. Drawing by Morgen Fleisig. loc.gov/pictures/item/… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn-of-R… #oldbridges #architecturaldrawing #measureddrawing #oldstamford #stamfordhistory

Leicester B. Holland Prize #2 (from 2012) shows the White Rock Lookout Tower at @GreatSmokyNPS, constructed 1937-39. It was drawn by Laura Beth Ingle of @ClemsonUniv / @CofC. #oldarchitecture #oldbuilding #30sarchitecture #architecturaldrawing #measureddrawing #historicparks

The annual Leicester B. Holland Prize goes to the best single-sheet measured drawing of an historic site, structure or landscape prepared to 🇺🇸Historic American Buildings Survey (#HABS) standards. The first winner, from 2011, shows a #BuckyFuller dome. nps.gov/hdp/competitio…

.@Harvard is now considering #denaming more of its buildings, programs & professorships. The committe cautions that “neither hagiography nor raw condemnation is likely to encompass & explain the full complexity of a life a name may represent.” harvardmagazine.com/2021/12/harvar… #Harvard

🔎 Marvelous piece of sleuthing around this still life by Isabel Agnes Cowper, the @V_and_A's Official Museum Photographer from 1868 – 1891. 📖 READ >> vam.ac.uk/blog/caring-fo… #museumeducation #museumphotography #womeninmuseums

“When COVID-19 shut down museums in March 2020, the Met projected a likely $150 million revenue shortfall. That hefty figure has been repeated in the press ever since. Unreported before now, however, is the 33% spike in the Met’s endowments, [now] pegged at $4.4 billion.”

Thomas Jefferson @TJMonticello organized his books by subject on paper, and by size (in stacking book boxes) IRL. 📖 READ >> monticello.org/site/research-… 📺 WATCH >> youtube.com/watch?v=iuX9U2… #bookhistory #hhmuseums #smallmuseums #libraryhist #bookboxes #bookpresses #bookcases

Future museums should be domestic scale, not monumental says Orhan Pamuk. << WE HAD: Epics Representation Monuments Histories Nations Groups and teams Large and expensive WE NEED Novels Expression Homes Stories Persons Individuals Small and cheap >> craftcouncil.org/magazine/artic…

'The Value, Impact & Importance of Experimenting with Cultural Heritage Digital Collections'. Wise & witty explanation of what worked & what didn't from @DEJPett: youtube.com/watch?v=Go1ykN… #GLAM #digitalmuseums #culturalheritage #digitalcollections #3Dscanning HT @mrchristian99

When a federal museum exhibition announcement reads like a car ad. 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 #motordom #yourtaxdollarsatwork #ohcanada

"In 1881 a group of high society women gathered in London to form a new organization. They named their group the Rational Dress Society, intending to reform Victorian women’s dress ..." Full story >> blog.newspapers.com/the-rational-d… #cycling #history #fashionhistory #women #rationaldress

Superb intro to the anatomy of hand-press books, via @rarebookschool. youtube.com/watch?v=Efxddk… #rarebooks #printing #history

"X is the Xit, Xtremely alluring When the Cubies invite us to study their Art ..." #modernart #modernism #antimodern #antimodernism #abstraction #cubism #futurism #ArmoryShow #satire

The Armory Show (NY, 1913) introduced Americans to the art of the European avant-garde (cubists futurist, &c.). This caused a stir among traditionalists, including Mary Mills and Earl Harvey Lyall, who satirized it with a spirited children's book. publicdomainreview.org/collection/the… #cubies

Victorian artist Harrison Weir was crazy about cats. Story via @collectorswkly >> collectorsweekly.com/articles/origi… #harrisonweir #cathistory #catfluencer #catsinart #cats #mentalhealth

Many great artifacts in this overview of Victorian attitudes toward people with disabilities. collectorsweekly.com/articles/heali…

What business is YOUR museum in? 📖 >> smallmuseums.ca/museum-anarchi… #museums #hhmuseums #museumanarchism #communityengagement