Grand Hairy One

Photos from museums and heritage sites, random posts of whatever I'm interested in and fun little facts about history from those museums.

[theworldatwar]

A German WW1 Trench Raider -France, date unknown

[folklorespring]

Kyiv Pechersk Lavra after russian attack during the night.

Kyiv Pechersk Lavra is an architectural ensemble of monastic buildings, founded the 11th century and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

[folklorespring]

Mystetskyi Arsenal near Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. Mystetskyi Arsenal is a cultural institution, a museum and art exhibition complex. Every year it hosts Ukraine’s biggest book fair.

[barbucomedie]

Parade Shield from Florence, Italy dated between 1380 - 1450 from Florence on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England

This rare shield would have been used for ceremonial purposes only. It boldly declares the identity of the Villani Family, who were wool merchants in Florence. Their arms dominate the surface, and when not in use the shield would have been put on display in their home.

Photographs taken by myself 2017

[wh40kartwork]

Techno-barbarians

by John Blanche

[scipunk]

Alien (1979)

[chernobog13]

The USS Sulaco, a Conestoga-class light assault ship in service with the US Colonial Marine Corps, from the film Aliens (1986).

[humanoidhistory]

Aliens concept art by Syd Mead.

[scipunk]

Alien: Romulus (2024)

[ducissatenebrarum]

A Memento Mori Skeleton, France, 1566

Limestone

55 ½ in. (141 cm) high

[alien-theory]

Aliens: Nightmare Asylum (Dark Horse Comics, 1989)

[artverso]

Geoff Darrow - Aliens

[neonelven]

Knight Leg Armor Detail / Metropolitan Museum of Art

[barbucomedie]

Sign of the Virgin Mary and Saint Hermès from Rhénanie, France dated to the 15th Century on display at the Musée National du Moyen Âge in Paris, France

Photographs taken by myself 2017

[silky-selkie]

[barbucomedie]

The General Liu Rifle from the Republic of China dated to the Early 20th Century on display at the Army Museum in Stockholm, Sweden

In 1915 China introduced its first semi-automatic rifle known as the "General Liu Rifle" after its designer General Liu Qingen as the rifle never had any designation. The rifle was initially produced by the Pratt & Whitney company in America and later the Hanyang Arsenal. However this move back to China resulted in a delay of production with machinery being lost at sea. This meant that the rifle was never put into mass production for the Chinese forces.

Photographs taken by myself 2025

[spectralidax]

[socialistmodernism]

Moldova, near Ungheni.

A Soviet spherical radome, 18m diameter, built in the early 1970s by the USSR PVO Air Defence Forces. Housed a PRV-13 Odd Pair height-finding radar, tracking aircraft up to 310 km range. Abandoned since 1991, now slowly collapsing.

(c) BACU 2026

Photo Dumitru RUSU