Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="194" caption="Painting found in Yale Art Gallery's storage, Attributed to Diego Velázquez, The Education of the Virgin (detail shown), ca. 1617–18. Oil on canvas. Yale University Art Gallery."][/caption] Golly gee—sometimes some pretty incredible things are found in museum storage [via @museumnerd]. I worked peripherally on MIT’s
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="403" caption="Portraits by Bernard Osterman, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, at the National Gallery, now NPG, in the MNH, Jan.10-24,1928, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 311 Box 32 Folder 11, Negative Number: 2002-32209."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Dr. David W. Scott, left, curator and later director of the National Collection of Fine Arts, now the National Museum of American Art, with unidentified person, 1969, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 313 Box 26 Folder 3, Negative Number: 94-4412."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="A model showing a mining town with railroad tracks in the foreground, various coal mining buildings, and houses in the background in the United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, c. 1920, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285, Box 16,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Specimens from the Teddy Roosevelt's African safari being worked on in the taxidermy workroom in the new United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, c. 1911, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 4, Folder: March 1984,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="329" caption="Installation of the Comparative Anatomy Hall in the new United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, Workers can be seen using a pulley system to raise the skeleton of a whale to the ceiling, c. 1881, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="401" caption="While the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, is still under construction, the 1401, a 280 ton Pacific-type passenger steam locomotive is being moved into the building, 1961, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285,
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