💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🎨🖼️ Artist Jas Knight paints in front of Diego Velázquez's 1650 #portrait Juan de Pareja through The Metropolitan Museum of #Art's Copyist Program. The long-running program lets artists study #masterworks up close to learn traditional #painting techniques.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/the-mets-copyi…

#theMet #17thcentury #arthistory #history #museums #calm #instruments #jazz #music #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #piano #reproduction #theMetropolitanMuseumOfArt #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🎨🖼️ Artist Jas Knight paints in front of Diego Velázquez's 1650 #portrait Juan de Pareja through The Metropolitan Museum of #Art's Copyist Program. The long-running program lets artists study #masterworks up close to learn traditional #painting techniques.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/the-mets-copyi…

#theMet #17thcentury #arthistory #history #museums #calm #instruments #jazz #music #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #piano #reproduction #theMetropolitanMuseumOfArt #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🎨🖼️ Artist Jas Knight paints in front of Diego Velázquez's 1650 #portrait Juan de Pareja through The Metropolitan Museum of #Art's Copyist Program. The long-running program lets artists study #masterworks up close to learn traditional #painting techniques.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/the-mets-copyi…

#theMet #17thcentury #arthistory #history #museums #calm #instruments #jazz #music #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #piano #reproduction #theMetropolitanMuseumOfArt #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ NEW: 🎨🖼️ Artist Jas Knight paints in front of Diego Velázquez's 1650 #portrait Juan de Pareja through The Metropolitan Museum of #Art's Copyist Program. The long-running program lets artists study #masterworks up close to learn traditional #painting techniques.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/the-mets-copyi…

#theMet #17thcentury #arthistory #history #museums #calm #instruments #jazz #music #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #piano #reproduction #theMetropolitanMuseumOfArt #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🪱🦴 Superworm larvae strip flesh from #animal #skeletons faster than traditional methods, cleaning delicate #bones in hours to days without damage.

Cared for on a vegetable diet, the reusable #larvae could serve #museums that lack the space or funding for dermestid beetle colonies.

👉 smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/…

#superworms #insects #zoology #science #beetles #entomology #biology #animals #research #anatomy #nature

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🏛️⛰️ Archaeologists Jonathan Till and Nate Thomas take a tour of protected archaeological sites across #Utah's #BearsEars National Monument.

Historic co-management by five #NativeAmerican Tribes preserves ancestral homelands and #ecosystems, including rock engravings at #NewspaperRock that span thousands of years.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/bears-ears-nat…

#americanhistory #history #archaeology #art #communication #conservation #culture #drawings #hiking #indigenouspeoples #monuments #museums #northamerica #petroglyphs #rocks #sandstone #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🏛️⛰️ Archaeologists Jonathan Till and Nate Thomas take a tour of protected archaeological sites across #Utah's #BearsEars National Monument.

Historic co-management by five #NativeAmerican Tribes preserves ancestral homelands and #ecosystems, including rock engravings at #NewspaperRock that span thousands of years.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/bears-ears-nat…

#americanhistory #history #archaeology #art #communication #conservation #culture #drawings #hiking #indigenouspeoples #monuments #museums #northamerica #petroglyphs #rocks #sandstone #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🎨🔍 The Last Museum indexes roughly 5.8 million #artworks from thousands of #museums worldwide, spanning 3000 BCE to the present. Users can search by themes, colors, or descriptive phrases without knowing an artwork’s title or #artist.

👉 openculture.com/2026/07/a-free…

#thelastmuseum #art #history #publicdomain #culture #education #museums #discovery #learning

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🏛️⛰️ Archaeologists Jonathan Till and Nate Thomas take a tour of protected archaeological sites across #Utah's #BearsEars National Monument.

Historic co-management by five #NativeAmerican Tribes preserves ancestral homelands and #ecosystems, including rock engravings at #NewspaperRock that span thousands of years.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/bears-ears-nat…

#americanhistory #history #archaeology #art #communication #conservation #culture #drawings #hiking #indigenouspeoples #monuments #museums #northamerica #petroglyphs #rocks #sandstone #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ NEW: 🏛️⛰️ Archaeologists Jonathan Till and Nate Thomas take a tour of protected archaeological sites across #Utah's #BearsEars National Monument.

Historic co-management by five #NativeAmerican Tribes preserves ancestral homelands and #ecosystems, including rock engravings at #NewspaperRock that span thousands of years.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/bears-ears-nat…

#americanhistory #history #archaeology #art #communication #conservation #culture #drawings #hiking #indigenouspeoples #monuments #museums #northamerica #petroglyphs #rocks #sandstone #tksst #video

#introduction Greetings. Rejoining this instance with a new account some years after being locked out of my first Mastodon one, circa 2018. Introducing myself by way of a bunch of hashtags of interest, as one does.

My profile image is a 1940 painting by Dorothea Tanning, "Deirdre" (of the Sorrows).

#surrealism #magicalrealism #painting #womenartists #feminism #kindness #socialism #wildlife #nature #newengland #forest #music #film #hermitcraft #knitting #cats #museums #crafts #whimsy #AuDHD

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🏛️🧩 A college student built "Provenance," a free online #game using the Met’s open access collection. Players match #artifact fragments to their known origins, learning how curators trace objects back to specific sites or cultures.

👉 smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/…

#themet #art #history #archaeology #museums #culture #puzzles #education

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐦🪺 Near the front lines in #Ukraine, common #songbirds are repurposing unspooled #fiberoptic drone cables to weave their #nests.

#Kyiv's War Museum is now preserving two of these unique specimens. Biologists plan to run #DNA testing to identify the exact bird species building with the discarded modern #warfare #technology.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/ukraine-birds-…

#animals #wildlife #biology #birds #communication #drones #information #info #nature #networks #pollution #science #tech #war #museums #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐦🪺 Near the front lines in #Ukraine, common #songbirds are repurposing unspooled #fiberoptic drone cables to weave their #nests.

#Kyiv's War Museum is now preserving two of these unique specimens. Biologists plan to run #DNA testing to identify the exact bird species building with the discarded modern #warfare #technology.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/ukraine-birds-…

#animals #wildlife #biology #birds #communication #drones #information #info #nature #networks #pollution #science #tech #war #museums #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐦🪺 Near the front lines in #Ukraine, common #songbirds are repurposing unspooled #fiberoptic drone cables to weave their #nests.

#Kyiv's War Museum is now preserving two of these unique specimens. Biologists plan to run #DNA testing to identify the exact bird species building with the discarded modern #warfare #technology.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/ukraine-birds-…

#animals #wildlife #biology #birds #communication #drones #information #info #nature #networks #pollution #science #tech #war #museums #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ NEW: 🐦🪺 Near the front lines in #Ukraine, common #songbirds are repurposing unspooled #fiberoptic drone cables to weave their #nests.

#Kyiv's War Museum is now preserving two of these unique specimens. Biologists plan to run #DNA testing to identify the exact bird species building with the discarded modern #warfare #technology.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/ukraine-birds-…

#animals #wildlife #biology #birds #communication #drones #information #info #nature #networks #pollution #science #tech #war #museums #tksst #video

@jqjacobs@archaeo.social It depends on which head we are talking about, because there isn't just one—there are several, and some were moved to different museums.

#Archaeology #olmec #sanlorenzo #art #Mesoamerica #museums #México #arqueologia #México #olmeca #Prehispanico #arte #museo #museos #inah #Historia #Antropología

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: ⚽🎨 #Artist Lyndon J. Barrois Sr. started twisting and painting discarded gum wrappers into #art when he was around 11 years old.

Today, these miniature #sculptures capture iconic moments from nearly 100 years in women's and men's #soccer aka #football.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/lacma-gum-wrap…

#aluminum #aluminium #history #hobbies #museums #paint #paper #papercraft #play #recycling #sports #toys #trash #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: ⚽🎨 #Artist Lyndon J. Barrois Sr. started twisting and painting discarded gum wrappers into #art when he was around 11 years old.

Today, these miniature #sculptures capture iconic moments from nearly 100 years in women's and men's #soccer aka #football.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/lacma-gum-wrap…

#aluminum #aluminium #history #hobbies #museums #paint #paper #papercraft #play #recycling #sports #toys #trash #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: ⚽🎨 #Artist Lyndon J. Barrois Sr. started twisting and painting discarded gum wrappers into #art when he was around 11 years old.

Today, these miniature #sculptures capture iconic moments from nearly 100 years in women's and men's #soccer aka #football.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/lacma-gum-wrap…

#aluminum #aluminium #history #hobbies #museums #paint #paper #papercraft #play #recycling #sports #toys #trash #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ NEW: ⚽🎨 #Artist Lyndon J. Barrois Sr. started twisting and painting discarded gum wrappers into #art when he was around 11 years old.

Today, these miniature #sculptures capture iconic moments from nearly 100 years in women's and men's #soccer aka #football.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/lacma-gum-wrap…

#aluminum #aluminium #history #hobbies #museums #paint #paper #papercraft #play #recycling #sports #toys #trash #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🫧🌙 Artist duo A.A. Murakami creates ephemeral #tech experienced through temporary materials like #bubbles and #fog rings rather than #screens.

Their pool of #smoke-filled bubbles translates the #Japanese tradition of #moon viewing into an art of disappearing where popping and fading is part of the #design.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/a-a-murakami-m…

#art #history #museums #artists #clouds #culture #installation #japan #night #physics #soap #technology #tokyo #tradition #tksst #video

Inside Tehran’s former U.S. Embassy, now an anti-American museum, in photos.

A look inside Tehran’s former U.S. Embassy, transformed into an anti-American museum known as the U.S. Den of Espionage.

apnews.com/photo-gallery/insid… #globalmuseum #museums #Iran

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🫧🌙 Artist duo A.A. Murakami creates ephemeral #tech experienced through temporary materials like #bubbles and #fog rings rather than #screens.

Their pool of #smoke-filled bubbles translates the #Japanese tradition of #moon viewing into an art of disappearing where popping and fading is part of the #design.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/a-a-murakami-m…

#art #history #museums #artists #clouds #culture #installation #japan #night #physics #soap #technology #tokyo #tradition #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🫧🌙 Artist duo A.A. Murakami creates ephemeral #tech experienced through temporary materials like #bubbles and #fog rings rather than #screens.

Their pool of #smoke-filled bubbles translates the #Japanese tradition of #moon viewing into an art of disappearing where popping and fading is part of the #design.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/a-a-murakami-m…

#art #history #museums #artists #clouds #culture #installation #japan #night #physics #soap #technology #tokyo #tradition #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ NEW: 🫧🌙 Artist duo A.A. Murakami creates ephemeral #tech experienced through temporary materials like #bubbles and #fog rings rather than #screens.

Their pool of #smoke-filled bubbles translates the #Japanese tradition of #moon viewing into an art of disappearing where popping and fading is part of the #design.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/a-a-murakami-m…

#art #history #museums #artists #clouds #culture #installation #japan #night #physics #soap #technology #tokyo #tradition #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🛡️⚔️ How did armorers design body #armor that could protect a #knight from the force of a lance?

#Steel provided the basic required strength, but shape determined how that strength performed under impact. Rounded surfaces helped reduce the chances of dents when hit with a lance.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/what-makes-a-k…

#15thcentury #16thcentury #activities #animation #art #defense #design #diy #etching #gilding #history #kids #museums #physics #renaissance #science #weapons #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ NEW: 🛡️⚔️ How did armorers design body #armor that could protect a #knight from the force of a lance?

#Steel provided the basic required strength, but shape determined how that strength performed under impact. Rounded surfaces helped reduce the chances of dents when hit with a lance.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/what-makes-a-k…

#15thcentury #16thcentury #activities #animation #art #defense #design #diy #etching #gilding #history #kids #museums #physics #renaissance #science #weapons #tksst #video

Thomas Smillie, 1890–1913.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Flickr: The Commons

Available to buy as a print.

pdimagearchive.org/images/df07…

#museums #cyanotype #equestrian #horseshoes #art #publicdomain

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: A 12-meter tall T. rex named Gus goes up for #auction July 14 after a six-year excavation and lab prep process that started on a #SouthDakota cattle ranch. 🦴

There's an ongoing #debate about whether big #fossils belong in #museums or private collections. 💰

👉 popsci.com/science/gus-t-rex-a…

#paleontology #trex #dinosaur #cretaceous #science #sothebys #naturalhistory #history #tyrannosaurus

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🧸🎁 Hand-carved from cottonwood root, #Hopi kachina #dolls are gifts that teach. Passed from elders to #children, they carry lessons about #spirituality, the natural world, and ancestral connection – from simple forms for the youngest to richly detailed katsintihu for older #kids.

👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post/k…

#arizona #art #history #carving #community #creativity #design #indigenous #museums #nativeamericans #nature #tksst #video

🧸🎁 Hand-carved from cottonwood root, #Hopi kachina #dolls are gifts that teach. Passed from elders to #children, they carry lessons about #spirituality, the natural world, and ancestral connection – from simple forms for the youngest to richly detailed katsintihu for older #kids.

👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post/k…

#arizona #art #history #carving #community #creativity #design #indigenous #museums #nativeamericans #nature #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🏛️🧱 Before #Rome became an empire that ruled on three continents, it was a small Italian city-state surrounded by a thriving yet often uncredited civilization known as the Etruscans.

These #ancient Italians were industrious artists and skilled engineers who built great roads, #bridges, and underground #water tunnels. They laid the foundation for present-day #architecture, engineering, and artistic achievements, establishing technologies like winemaking and hydraulic systems in Italy from around 900 to 100 BCE.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/who-were-the-e…

#history #animation #anthropology #archaeology #art #museums #books #culture #egypt #europe #inventions #italy #languages #mediterranian #mummy #statue #tksst #video

The Silver Swan automaton, crafted in London around 1773 by clockmaker James Cox and inventor John Joseph Merlin to mimic a real swan's movements and feeding.

It has over 2,000 moving parts and is the main attraction at Bowes Museum, England.
@Rainmaker1973 #globalmuseum #automaton #museums

🏛️🧱 Before #Rome became an empire that ruled on three continents, it was a small Italian city-state surrounded by a thriving yet often uncredited civilization known as the Etruscans.

These #ancient Italians were industrious artists and skilled engineers who built great roads, #bridges, and underground #water tunnels. They laid the foundation for present-day #architecture, engineering, and artistic achievements, establishing technologies like winemaking and hydraulic systems in Italy from around 900 to 100 BCE.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/who-were-the-e…

#history #animation #anthropology #archaeology #art #museums #books #culture #egypt #europe #inventions #italy #languages #mediterranian #mummy #statue #tksst #video

🏛️🧬 Researchers at University College #London found that visiting #museums and attending #concerts may slow biological #aging by 4%.

Analyzing #data from 3,500 adults, the #study suggests weekly cultural engagement reduces #stress and inflammation. The #health benefits are comparable to regular exercise, potentially leading to future "arts prescriptions" for healthy #aging.

👉 sciencealert.com/visiting-muse…

#science #health #museum #biology #research #culture #wellness #art #lifestyle

Thomas Smillie, 1890–1913.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Flickr: The Commons

Available to buy as a print.

pdimagearchive.org/images/43de…

#museums #drawers #cyanotype #cabinets #art #publicdomain

Sperm whales’ communication closely parallels human language, study finds.

Analysis shows whales’ coda vocalizations are ‘highly complex’ and remarkably similar to our own.

theguardian.com/environment/20… #globalmuseum #museums #hWales

🎨🏛️ The Art #UK project has digitized more than one million artworks from thousands of British #museums and galleries.

This central #database allows users to study various styles and historical periods through high-resolution #images of public #art.

👉 openculture.com/2026/04/explor…

#history #culture #painting #sculpture #england

Great! May they listen to you and learn how to write alt text. 😁
It would be so easy for them to have at least automated content. And hey, they could join that French instance reseauculture.fr/about for #culture and #museums!

@parismusees has already an account. And perhaps @ChristineDebray could be a helpful contact?

@Mastodon

Thomas Smillie, 1890–1913.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Flickr: The Commons

Available to buy as a print.

pdimagearchive.org/images/56c0…

#furnishings #museums #cyanotype #architecture #art #publicdomain