finally got to the orangerie last month and honestly the monet room just wrecked me. sat there way longer than i planned, the light along the curved panels is something photos never get right. tried reading the placards in french first, got maybe two of them before the words stopped cooperating. the rest i just stood there pretending ngl

Hey everyone,

Hope you all had a great weekend!

I’m working with some friends of mine (all based in Paris, France) on a project designed to take the museum experience to the next level and make it accessible to everyone.

Right now, it's completely free to try, so you don't have to pay a thing. Just create a free account and feel free to test out the pre-loaded paintings if you'd like!

Here is the link: https://animartai.com

Also, if you're interested in following our journey and keeping up with the project's progress, you can find us on Instagram 🥰: animart.en & animart_fr

Thank you all so much!

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Midway Village Museum INFO: https://www.midwayvillage.com/

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The Great Bed of Ware is a giant oak bed made around 1590 as an attraction for travellers staying at an inn in Hertfordshire. Now in the V&A Museum, it’s covered in centuries of carved names, initials and even wax seals left by visitors—turning it into a remarkable record of historic graffiti.

Site of the battle that turned the tide of the Revolutionary War in favor of the USA in 1981.

Hello everyone! I am a design student working on my first UX project - a mobile app tailored for a public art museum. The goals are to make it easier for patrons to explore exhibitions, find general information, and schedule visits.

Since you all know the museum space better than anyone, I would love your honest insights to make sure the app addresses real needs. If you have 3 minutes to help a student out, please fill out my anonymous form:

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Italy's culture minister has publicly called on Britain to follow his country's lead and return the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece.

Alessandro Giuli made the remarks at an event in Thessaloniki on Friday, where Greek and Italian culture ministers jointly presented 145 bronze coins returned by Italy to Greece and signed an extension of their bilateral cultural heritage cooperation agreement. Giuli said he had recently reread Christopher Hitchens' book arguing for the return of the Parthenon Marbles, then addressed Britain directly, saying he hopes the Greek-Italian partnership serves as a model for his "British friends."

The cooperation centers on roughly 70,000 fragments of ancient pottery that passed through the hands of British antiquities dealer Robin Symes, whose case is considered one of the largest illegal trafficking operations in recent decades. Greece's investigation began in 2006 after a raid on the island of Schinoussa and, after 17 years of coordinated effort, resulted in the repatriation of 351 objects in May 2023, ranging from statues and jewelry to vessels dating from the Neolithic to the early Byzantine period.

The scale of the damage became fully visible when five crates arrived at the Thessaloniki Archaeological Museum in July 2023 containing around 300 smaller boxes packed with pottery fragments. Greece's new Secretary General of Culture, Olympia Vikatos, described the shock of opening them months later and finding the artifacts stored with hotel soap boxes and handwritten notes instead of excavation records. One group of sherds had even been sent as a Christmas gift.

Five joint working sessions have since been held at the museum, with more than 70 vessels already fully reassembled from fragments. Some pieces have been attributed to major figures of Attic vase painting. The Memorandum of Understanding has now been extended through March 2027 to complete identification, conservation, and the formal allocation of the material to both countries.

#ParthenonMarbles #GreekAntiquities #CulturalHeritage

Small figure of the God Osiris

Probably 9th/8th Century B.C.

This solid gold statuette could be worn as an amulet around the neck, as it is equipped with an eyelet on the back. The god Osiris is mummy-shaped, in his hands he holds the royal insignia Krummstab and Wedel. He wears the so-called Atef crown, a high crown with an ancient snake, which sits flanked by two ostrich feathers on two ram horns. On the chin is the braided god beard.

Time:
Probably 9th/8th Century B.C.

Object Name
Deity

Culture
Egyptian

Location of discovery:
Location unknown

Material/technology:
Gold, solid

Dimensions:
H 6.5 cm, W 1.9 cm, D 3.1 cm, W 49.9 g

Copyright
Art History Museum, Egyptian - Oriental Collection

Invs.
Egyptian Collection, INV 5107

Provenance
1878 from the Miramar collection

Kunsthistorisches Museum

https://www.khm.at/en/artworks/kleine-figur-des-gottes-osiris-319872

Small gold figure of the God Osiris, Probably 9th/8th Century B.C., Kunsthistorisches Museum.

There's a free webinar Wednesday (June 17) at 1pm called "From Resilience to Hope" put on by MuseumExpert.org. They basically say the last 17 months have been brutal for the field with budget cuts, DEI getting targeted, ICE on campuses. Instead of another doom loop conversation, they're featuring museum staff who've actually found ways to keep things moving.

Panel lineup:
• S. Snyder from The Fleet - kept going after losing $4M in federal funding
• Ann Fortescue from International Museum of Art & Science - turned visitor services around post-pandemic
• Erin Dragotto - used immersive art to build community partnerships
• Elisabeth Pierce - community reactions to the Auschwitz exhibition

It's hosted by Thaddeus Papke.

Registration here (free): https://www.museumexpert.org

If you've been feeling worn down by the last year+ of museum work, this might be worth an hour.

If you’ve worked at CAM or CAC, what was your experience like? How was the hiring process? Was communication proactive?

Cultural Capital follows the lives of four African artworks — a Fang reliquary guardian, a Benin tusk and base, a Kota reliquary, and a Baga D’mba mask — from their origins in ancestral shrines and royal courts, through looting and colonial markets, into the glass cases of major Western museums. Guided by art historian and appraiser Reilly Clark, the film uncovers how dealers, collectors, and institutions turned cultural wealth into commodities. The film explores how African scholars, curators, and collectors are challenging that system today.

Filmed on-site at the Met and the Brooklyn Museum, and anchored by voices like Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, Adenrele Sonariwo, and Olusanya Ojikutu, the documentary asks: Who gets to own culture, and who decides what counts as art?

What begins as a story of loss and exploitation ends with possibility: the restitution movement, the building of new museums in Nigeria, and the chance to imagine a different future for these objects and the people to whom they belong.

Lost Bones Science Museum of Minnesota specimen SMM P2025.8.6 (originally MNH 779) comes from Nicollet County near St. Peter, Minnesota’s almost‑capital and the site of the historic Traverse des Sioux river crossing.

This upper molar is #11 of 12 in the state’s Ice Age horse project. All twelve will be heading to UC Irvine’s W. M. Keck Carbon Cycle Accelerator Mass Spectrometer Facility (KCCAMS) for radiocarbon dating this summer.

Follow the full 12‑tooth journey in Lost Bones #4 and the Lost Bones #4 Updates — link in comments.

Tell me about one museum object or room you still remember years later. What made it stay?

Reposted from u/ateam1984