#musuems

[dailyclassicart]

Félix Vallotton - "The Ray" (1909)

[houghtonlib]

"Perspective view of the rotunda at the Leverian Museum Albion Strt. near Blackfriers Bridge." Engraving by William Skelton, after Miss Stone and Charles Reuben Ryley, [1788].

MS Hyde 76, (4. 4. 335. 2)

Houghton Library, Harvard University

[moonlit-serendipityy]

I'm not asking for much. Just wishing I could go to bookstores and museums with a pretty boy and talk about things we love passionately for hours and make each other laugh, waltz to music in a hall.

[orchidscurse]

old finds from my camera roll 🏛

[shakespearenews]

How the excavation of Shakespeare’s Curtain theatre has changed stage history

Recovery of stage foundations, which will be part of new London museum, has changed understanding of theatre development

To Knight, the most intriguing question is how the design of the Curtain, with under-stage tunnel and multiple entrances, may have affected the work performed there. “Does this stage shape actually lend itself to battles?” she asked. “We seem to have the ‘fightier’ plays in rectangular buildings”.

“When you think about Romeo and Juliet, essentially, it’s not the greatest love story ever,” she said. “It’s a series of fight scenes linked by dialogue.” That said, within the foundations, she also discovered post holes that would have supported an onstage balcony. To be able to stand in the same spot, she said, was “quite a thing”.

[hyperfixating-rn-brb]

its so funny seeing the difference between the UK and US because uk museums have signs saying which paintings were owned by slavers and screens zooming in on a painting of a meeting detailing everyone's crimes in order to take accountability and the us is run by a felon who is inches away from stripping citizenship from whoever he wants

[protoslacker]

Queering Indigeneity is a multi-year, multi-generational project that celebrates the vision and diversity of 2-Spirit, Native queer, gender expansive artists in the Upper Midwest. In seeking out and amplifying voices of Indigenous artists and culture bearers,

[sherdnerd]

The argument that the British musuem should hold onto artifacts because they're more capable of taking care of then is one that instantly disintegrates the second you read the history of the Parthenon Marbles