title: Mah-to-toh-pa, the Mandan Chief
artist: George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872
source: Smithsonian American Art Museum
#Art #Design #Museum #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=4245
title: Mah-to-toh-pa, the Mandan Chief
artist: George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872
source: Smithsonian American Art Museum
#Art #Design #Museum #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=4245
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use"
The number of art pieces alone is staggering to contemplate. Having them freely available to browse is incredible, and to then put a #HiRes #scan for all of them into the #PublicDomain is astonishing.
A lifetime of #museum visits to view remarkable #art without a lifetime of travel. No, you don't get exactly the same experience, but holy brushstrokes, Batman...!!!
Dunedin's David Hutchinson is five hours into an expected eight hour swim across New Zealand's Cook Strait. And he's doing it for a very good cause.
The physics professor and Otago Museum board chairman is raising money to install a new fire sprinkler system at Tūhura Otago Museum.
Live tracking:
https://livetracking.nz/route/cook-strait/
Background story:
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/dunedin-professor-sets-cook-strait-swim
Dunedin's David Hutchinson is five hours into an expected eight hour swim across New Zealand's Cook Strait. And he's doing it for a very good cause.
The physics professor and Otago Museum board chairman is raising money to install a new fire sprinkler system at Tūhura Otago Museum.
Live tracking:
https://livetracking.nz/route/cook-strait/
Background story:
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/dunedin-professor-sets-cook-strait-swim
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use"
The number of art pieces alone is staggering to contemplate. Having them freely available to browse is incredible, and to then put a #HiRes #scan for all of them into the #PublicDomain is astonishing.
A lifetime of #museum visits to view remarkable #art without a lifetime of travel. No, you don't get exactly the same experience, but holy brushstrokes, Batman...!!!
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A few days ago, I posted this about contemporary art, how to experience it and appreciate it:
https://davidbilla.net/how-to-appreciate-contemporary-art/
Today(?) @my Art Walkway just posted this that definitely complements my post:
https://www.artwalkway.com/framing-meaning-interpretation-institutional-condition/
You should read both (and subscribe to both newsletters) if you haven't already. 🙂
Hi Fediverse! Hallo Mastodon! Wir sind das Deutsche Technikmuseum und #neuhier!
Auf 28.500 Quadratmetern Ausstellungfläche geht's bei uns um die Frage, wie Technik unser Leben prägt. Von historischen Maschinen bis zu Zukunftsthemen wie Klimawandel, KI oder Verkehrswende. Hier teilen wir Einblicke ins Museum und Geschichten aus unseren Ausstellungen und Sammlungen. Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch mit euch!
#museum
📄 Positionspapier zur Objektbiografie veröffentlicht
🏺 Die Objektbiografie ergänzt den Datenlebenszyklus um ein neues Verständnis von Sammlungsdaten:
ℹ️ Objekte werden als dynamische Knotenpunkte von #Ereignissen, Akteur:innen, #Orten und #Bedeutungen gedacht – über historische, archäologische, naturwissenschaftliche und museale Perspektiven hinweg.
🔗 https://zenodo.org/records/18221449
#NFDI4Objects #Objektbiografie #FDM #Sammlungsdaten #CulturalHeritage #OpenScience #DH #Museum @klassikstiftung @FAU
'Subject No.12 - Australia' bicentennial commemorative milk carton
The twelth in a series of bicentennial milk cartons. The carton is white waxed card with printed text in a flat construction ready to be folded into …
Waxed paper
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
https://collectionsearch.nma.gov.au/s/hw/EMU.EMUIRN/125806
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#Art #History #Museum #ArtHistory #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random #Australia
'Subject No.12 - Australia' bicentennial commemorative milk carton
The twelth in a series of bicentennial milk cartons. The carton is white waxed card with printed text in a flat construction ready to be folded into …
Waxed paper
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
https://collectionsearch.nma.gov.au/s/hw/EMU.EMUIRN/125806
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#Art #History #Museum #ArtHistory #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random #Australia
Tomorrow I will join the workshops of the yearly conference "Das Kunstmuseum im digitalen Zeitalter" in Vienna and then in the evening discuss on a panel with Jane Finnis (The Audience Agency) and Sofie Taes (KU Leuven & Europeana Network Association & DigitGLAM).
The conference features many interesting and critical talks about AI and museums, have a look at the book of abstracts:
https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/2026-01/Book%20of%20Abstracts%20The%20Art%20Museum%20in%20the%20Digital%20Age%202026.pdf
#openglam #ai #museum #artmuseuminthedigitalage #kunstmuseumimdigitalenzeitalter
People generally don't realise that a #museum is a major storage and archive that offers to find and show the public and scholars any given object in its care, with provenance, century after century.
70 years ago, Evert Baudou looked at 90 stone axes in the Swedish #History Museum. This week I got to handle *every single one* again. A few of them have been in that collection for 200 years by now. ❤️
