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we're not kids anymore.
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PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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Today's Document
YOU ARE THE REASON
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trying on a metaphor
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“The third installment of Calendar features the most sophisticated installers who staff New York City’s major institutions, museums, galleries, universities, and studios.” (ArtHandlersCalendar)
“The perfect gift for that special arts administrator, gallery owner or registrar in your life.”
honestly you should never piss off a historian because we hold the longest grudges. like we study and get riled about things hundreds of years in the past so don’t even think that we’d ever forget something that happened to us 3 weeks ago. we still get angry about historical figures that insulted our favorite historical figures. we still haven’t gotten over the library of alexandria
I just paid $0.50 for this at a used bookstore and it was worth every penny.
reblog if youre still not over the library of alexandria
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I'm just gonna slide this in here.... #unicorns
Can we please talk about how our history teacher sent a barbie to the smithsonian as proof of the presence of man two million years ago
pleas,e for the love of God read the whole letter, there are tears streamign down my face rn
Can we please talk about how your history teacher has done this sort of thing enough times that he has his own specimen shelf in the Smithsonian
“yours in science” tho
“B. Clams don’t have teeth” is the part where I lost it.
@zozi-writes
The letter says:
“Thank you for your latest submission to the Institute, labeled “211-D, layer seven, next to the clothesline post. Hominid skull.” We have gien this specimen a careful and detailed examination and regret to inform you that we disagree with you theory that it represents ‘conclusive proof of the presence of Early Man in Charleston County two million years ago.’ Rather, it appears that what you have found is the head of a Barbie doll, of the variety one of our staff, who has small children, believes to be the ‘Malibu Barbie’. It is evident that you have given a great deal of thought to the analysis of this specimen, and you may be quite certain that those of us who are familiar with your prior work in the field were loathe to come to contradiction with your findings. However, we do feel that there are a number of physical attributes of the specimen which might have tipped you off to it’s modern origin:
The material is molded plastic. Ancient hominid remains are typically fossilized bone.
The cranial capacity of the specimen is approximately 9 cubic centimeters, well below the threshold of even the earliest identified proto-hominids.
The dentition patters evident on the ‘skull’ is more consistent with the common domesticated dog than it is with the ‘ravenous man-eating Pliocene clams’ you speculate roamed the wetlands during that time.This latter finding is certainly one of the most intriguing hypotheses you have submitted in your history with this institution, but the evidence seems to weigh rather heavily against it. Without going into too much detail, let us say that:
A) The specimen looks like the head of a Barbie doll that a dog has chewed on.
Clams don’t have teeth.
It is with feelings tinged with melancholy that we must deny your request to have the specimen carbon dated. This is partially due to the heavy load our lab must bear in it’s normal operation, and partly due to carbon dating’s notorious inaccuracy in fossils of recent geologic record. To the best of our knowledge, no Barbie dolls were produced prior to 1956 AD, and carbon dating is likely to produce wildly inaccurate results. Sadly , we must also deny your request that we approach the National Science Foundation’s Phylogeny Department with the concept of assigning your specimen the scientific name ‘Australopithecus spiff-arino.’ Speaking personally, I for one, fought tenaciously for the acceptance of your proposed taxonomy, but was ultimately voted down because the species name you selected was hyphenated, and didn’t really sound like it might be Latin.
However, we gladly accept your generous donation of this fascinating specimen to the museum. While it is undoubtedly not a hominid fossil, it is, nonetheless, yet another riveting example of the great body of work you seem to accumulate here so effortlessly. You should know that our Director has reserved a special shelf in his own office for the display of the specimens you have previously submitted to the Institution, and the entire staff speculates daily on what you will happen upon next in your digs at the site you have discovered in your back yard. We eagerly anticipate your trip to or nation’s capital that you proposed in you last letter, and several of us are pressing the Director to pay for it. We are particularly interested in hearing you expand on your theories surrounding the ‘trans-positating fillifitation of ferrous ions in a structural matrix’ that makes the excellent juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex femur you recently discovered take on the deceptive appearance of a rusty 9-mm Sears Craftsman automotive crescent wrench.
Yours in Science,
Harvey Rowe
Curator, Antiquities”
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(sorry if there are misspellings or wrong wordings. this was long and i was reading it off my phone)
“I for one, fought tenaciously for the acceptance of your proposed taxonomy, but was ultimately voted down because the species name you selected was hyphenated, and didn’t really sound like it might be Latin.“
@glumshoe
We give a lot of credit to whoever wrote this, but we can say with certainty that we haven’t been given any Barbie doll heads for our paleoanthropology department. (@amhistorymuseum does have plenty of Barbies, all with bodies too.)
But we have been offered some interesting things over the years. A few examples: a corn flake in the shape of Illinois, a two-legged dog, and the world’s longest beard.
We took the beard.
Yours in science,
The Smithsonian
Gonna sign all my emails, “Yours in Science” from now on, even though I work at a history museum.
New Zealand was the first country in the world in which all the highest offices in the country were occupied by women, between March 2005 and August 2006.
Reason number 538 that New Zealand is a magical enclave of awesome #countrygoals
Museum Dance Off 3 - Round 1 Match-Ups & Voting Schedule!
Because so many museums entered Museum Dance Off 3: Tokyo Drift this year, Round 1 voting will last over 9 days, and then pick up speed with rounds 2 and 3. It all leads to the Fury Road to the Thunderdome grand slam finale! Voting will be Monday - Friday beginning on April 18th at 8am Eastern Time, and each voting for each set of videos will be open for 24 hours.
HOW TO VOTE
Visit www.whenyouworkatamuseum.com each weekday starting April 18th at 8am EDT and view that day’s videos. Voting will be open each day from 8am - 7:59am the next day.
Vote for your favorite video.
Encourage your friends to vote on Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook using #MDO3 or email/text/share/semaphore/carrier pigeon them a link.
Do it again the next day with a new round of videos!
Please note that there is no voting on weekends.
ROUND 1: DAYS OF THUNDER
Day 1 - Mon, April 18, 2016 Madison Children’s Museum, Madison, WI, USA Seal Cove Auto Museum, Seal Cove, ME, USA Epping Forest District Museum, Waltham Abbey, Essex, UK The Canadian Museum Of Immigration At Pier 21, Halifax, NS, CAN
Day 2 - Tue, April 19, 2016 Thinkery, Austin, TX, USA Museum Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, AUS Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MO, USA Chemung County Historical Society, Elmira, NY, USA
Day 3 - Wed, April 20, 2016 Weltmuseum Wien, Wien, Austria Farmers Branch Historical Park, Farmers Branch, TX, USA Fishbourne Roman Palace, Fishbourne, West Sussex, UK First Division Museum At Cantigny, Wheaton, IL, USA
Day 4 - Thu, April 21, 2016 Toledo Museum Of Art, Toledo, OH, USA Canada Aviation And Space Museum, Ottawa, ON, CAN Halton Region Museum, Milton, ON, CAN The Henry Ford, Dearborn, MI, USA
Day 5 - Fri, April 22, 2016 Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Galloway Station Museum, Edson, AB, CAN Museum Of Applied Arts And Sciences, Ultimo, NSW, AUS Annapolis Maritime Museum, Annapolis, MD, USA
Day 6 - Mon, April 25, 2016 Minneapolis Institute Of Art, Minneaspolis, MN, USA History Colorado, Denver, CO, USA Tunbridge Wells Museum & Art Gallery, Tunbridge Wells, UK Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey, UK
Day 7 - Tue, April 26, 2016 Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT, USA Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, GA, USA Fort Ontario State Historic Site, Oswego, NY, USA Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Day 8 - Wed, April 27, 2016 The Museums Of Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, CAN National Museum Of American History, Washington, DC, USA Sam Noble Museum, Norman, OK, USA
Day 9 - Thu, April 28, 2016 Yarra Ranges Regional Museum, Lilydale, VIC, AUS Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, Charlottesville, VA, USA Chrysler Museum Of Art, Norfolk, VA, USA National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, AUS
ROUND 2: TALLADEGA NIGHTS
Day 1 - Mon, May 2, 2016 Winner Round 1, Day 1 vs Winner Round 1, Day 2 Day 2 - Tue, May 3, 2016 Winner Round 1, Day 3 vs Winner Round 1, Day 4 Day 3 - Wed, May 4, 2016 Winner Round 1, Day 5 vs Winner Round 1, Day 6 Day 4 - Thu, May 5, 2016 Winner Round 1, Day 7 vs Winner Round 1, Day 8 vs Winner Round 1, Day 9
ROUND 3 - CANNONBALL RUN
Day 1 - Fri, May 6, 2016
Winner Round 2, Day 1 vs Winner Round 2, Day 2
Day 2 - Mon, May 9, 2016 Winner Round 2, Day 3 vs Winner Round 2, Day 4
FINAL ROUND: THE FURY ROAD TO THE THUNDERDOME
Tues May 10, 2016
Winner Round 3, Day 1 vs Winner Round 3, Day 2
New game: take a drink every time someone calls the museum asking for an authentication or appraisal
Attempting to schedule artists for public exhibits and I hear nothing but, "That spot isn't public enough. I don't want to do this unless I get a different venue." Because apparently I'm supposed to magically create perfect exhibition spaces out of thin air. These have been the same spaces for two years, so why are you bitching now?
Preach it, Daniel.
That moment when a volunteer cancels before a massive community festival where your museum has a kids’ art activity booth, leaving just yourself and one teacher to cover 6 hrs. You’re expecting a minimum of 500 kids over the course of the day.
“Art handlers compete in the static hold event, in which they held framed pieces of lead (at 50 or 60 pounds) against a wall while a ‘curator’ barked orders.” (NYTimes) [2010]
The state of technology at my office
Too Mainstream
Form the archives.
Congress when discussing the Student Loan Crisis
