2018 Women's History Month edition!
- Little-known Hungarian art deco designer, Ilonka Karasz, has a solo show at the Cooper Hewitt [via Antiques and the Arts Weekly]
- The New York Times is trying to right the gender imbalance in their obituary archive by adding obits for 15 historic women including activist Ida B. Wells, feminist poet Qiu Jin, and mathematician Ada Lovelace...with more coming in the near future. [via NYT]
- How #groundbreaker astronomer Margaret Burbridge's refusal to accept the Annie Jump Cannon physics award led to increased awareness in the astronomy field of the discrimination women and other minority groups face. [via Physics Today]
- Our Anacostia Community Museum is bringing female environmental organizers together to strategize for the future. [via Anacostia Community Museum]
- You can watch a recent symposium with our National Museums of American Indian and African American History and Culture "examining racist mascots, the fate of Confederate statues and the politics of memory. [via Smithsonian Magazine]
- Museums as places of healing — Stoneman Douglas High School student survivors found solace in the Sept. 11th Museum in NY. [via Center for the Future of Museums]
- Check out the oldest known message in a bottle from 1886, and how an archival search led to its likely origin. [via BBC]
- The Munch Museum released more than 7600 previously unpublished Edvard Munch sketches for any use! [via Dagbladet]
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