museum objects

random museum objects, all CC0

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

*wakes up and immediately checks that the gunman is still at large* oh thank goodness

[museumobjects]

Design for a Book Cover (ca. 1887–1903)

Brush and gouache on yellow paper

Alice Cordelia Morse, American (1863–1961)

Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum

CHNDM_1943-33-1-4

[memories-of-ancients]

Frog amulet/seal, Egypt, Late Period, 1069-664 BC

from The Louvre

[museumobjects]

Ishibe: Guests at the Inn (Ishibe, ryosha tomarikyaku) from the Series 53 Stations of the Tokaido (1797-1858)

Woodblock print in colored ink on paper

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Robert H. Patterson

Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

CHNDM 1941-31-249

[museumobjects]

Trithyris pretiosalis Schaus, 1912

Costa Rica

Entomology Type

National Museum of Natural History (US), Entomology Department

NMNHEntomology 9184842

[museumobjects]

English Lord, An (1833)

Jean-Pierre Dantan, The Younger; French, b. Paris, 1800–1869

Plaster and paint

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966

HMSG 66.1039