- The Muppets take the Smithsonian! The National Museum of American History recently received a donation of more than 20 Henson puppets and props, including characters from The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, and Fraggle Rock from the Henson family. [via National Museum of American History]
- Go out and see a museum on Saturday! Smithsonian Magazine sponsors Museum Day Live! again this year where participating museums open their doors to anyone with a Museum Day ticket for free. [via Smithsonian Magazine]
- Hot off the press . . . A new design book published by the Smithsonian that manages to capture the great milestones in design from the 1860s onward. [via Cool Hunting]
- Calling all space shuttle photos! The National Air and Space Museum has a new Flickr group for people to upload their personal photos taken at space shuttle launches or landings events in preparation for the upcoming exhibition, Moving Beyond Earth. [via AirSpace, NASM]
- You never know what you will find - A museum visitor book contains a drawing of a Selk'nam man by Charles W. Furlong. [via NMAI blog]
- Talk about magnum opus, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin recently received the donation of the Magnum Photos collection of nearly 200,000 images taken by world-renowned Magnum photographers. [via Cultural Compass, Harry Ransom Center]
- An incredible mashup of robotics, projection mapping, and software created the following amazing video by Bot and Dolly. [via Colossal]
Box from Bot & Dolly on Vimeo.
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