#museum objects

[anotherconservator]

This display in Ashmolean Museum shows how touching artwork affects material.

[inariedwards]

"Punishment bands. Girls who offended at Hertford wore these bands on their forehead." Christ's Hospital Museum

[inariedwards]

We present the Musical automaton from the museum Collection exposition "Little schoolboy in a dunce cap", created by the French master Gustave Vichy circa 1900. The automaton features a figurine of a little boy in school uniform sitting on wooden bench for the delinquent. This funny figure, popular in the French culture at the end of the 19th century, depicts a character from the children's book “Jean Who Grumbles and Jean Who Laughs” by the French writer of the Russian descent, Countess of Ségur (born Sofiya Feodorovna Rostopchina, 1799-1874), written in 1865. Museum COLLECTION.

[eccentricrachel]

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[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

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

working on museum projects // too many artifacts, not enough about who made the artifacts