Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Description: Bonanza! A gorgeous medieval illuminated manuscript from the University of Aberdeen is now online. [via Hyperallergic]Hello, funny face. A Japanese museum of rocks, with faces! [via Colossal]My childhood favorite wooden 'Little People' just entered the Toy Hall of Fame. [via NPR]Want to save your election day newspaper? Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute weighs in.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="360" caption="Steven Cohn, the Smithsonian’s Office of Safety, Health and Environmental Management and the museum’s representative Industrial Hygienist, tests Owney's fur for arsenic, lead and mercury. Courtesy of the National Postal Museum "Pushing the Envelope" blog."][/caption] More interesting preservation challenges. We’ve covered
Description: Last week, Dr. Cynthia Chavez Lamar was named director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. Chavez Lamar has worked at the Museum throughout her career, from an internship in 1994 to her current role as acting associate director for collections and operations. Between 2000 and 2005, she was an associate curator, leading the work on “Our Lives,” one of
Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Description: For Draw a Bird Day, Smithsonian Libraries highlights the work of some of the Smithsonian’s youngest scientific illustrators. [via Smithsonian Libraries] [edan-image:id=siris_arc_369082,size=450,center]THE CITY features the archives and museums working to collect documentation of New Yorkers’ experiences during the pandemic. [via THE CITY]The latest in movie recs: historical
Description: Among the many photos in the Archives' collections are images from the Panamanian island, Coiba, where former Smithsonian Secretary Alexander Wetmore, conducted ornithological research. We've featured some of these images on the blog before, and I always wondered about their captions, which mentioned that Coiba was a penal colony.
Description: Artist Mathew Mohr has created a 14-foot interactive sculpture that creates projections of visitor's faces! [via Colossal]The Library of Congress has added 64 films for free streaming to their National Film Registry. [via Info Docket]Conservators are using light in the form of Reflectance Transformation Imaging to find Isaac Newton's doodles on the walls of childhood home.
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