#House Museums

[marzipanandminutiae]

#Tinder match just told me something very distressing about this #she had never heard of them. She is 25 #polls #history #museums #House museums

[saintartemis]

Musings of a Museum Professional

I was giving a tour today and a visitor asked me if I would mind telling them what my favorite item in the collection was and then apologized if they were bothering me or if I couldn't answer. And I’m over here like,

DON'T APOLOGIZE!!!

I don't have a single favorite, I have like a 'Top 15 list' and the ranking changes day to day! I absolutely LOVE talking about any of my favorites in the collection. Depending on the day and because we're a small staff, you could be in the museum with me, the curator, the marketing manager or even the director and we all have different faves and we all LOVE talking about them.

So please don't feel like it's a hassle or that you are bothering us if you ask museum staff what their favorite pieces in the collection are.a

We will talk about them at the slightest provocation!

#museums #museum life #museum work #museum worker #museum pro #museum professional #house museums #artemis speaks

[streetsofsalem]

The Jeremiah Lee Mansion

The Jeremiah Lee Mansion

There are two structures which made an impression on me early in my childhood and sort of set the standard for historic grandeur in my mind: Dartmouth Hall at Dartmouth College, where my father began his career, and The Lady Pepperrell House in Kittery, Maine, close to my hometown of York where we moved when he moved on to the University of New Hampshire. Of course, Dartmouth Hall is a Colonial…

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#Architecture #Art #Decorative Accessories #Georgian Architecture #great houses #Historic Houses #Historic Interiors #Historic Preservation #House Museums #Jeremiah Lee Mansion #Marblehead Museum #Wallpaper

[villafinale]

Celebrating Black Inventors and Innovators: Part 6

Doug Daye’s second to last post covering Black inventors and innovators is here for your reading pleasure! (All featured images are from Villa Finale’s collection.) Doug Daye Hairbrush On November 15, 1898, Lyda Newman received the patent for the first hairbrush with synthetic bristles. Her design for an improved hairbrush was inspired by her own experience as a Black woman and a hairdresser.…

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#Black Inventors #Collections #Historic houses #house museums #Innovators #Inventions

[zegalba]

Ryabushinsky Manison, Gorki House (1901) Located: Moscow, Russia

#Ryabushinsky Manison #gorki house #museum #architecture #interiors #interior design #staircase #moscow #russia #1901

[inkwell-illustrations]

I think about them too much...

#jedtavius natm #octavius x jedediah #jedediah and octavius #jedediah x octavius #jedediah smith #jedtavius #night at the museum octavius #octavius #octavius natm #natm jedtavius #natm octavius #natm jedediah #natm fandom #brain rot #lumity toh #the owl house lumity #lumity #luz x amity #amity x luz #newsies javey #javey newsies #javey #newsies jack kelly #dave x jack #jack newsies #jack kelly newsies #javid newsies #newsies david jacobs #newsies davey #davey x jack

[sovietpostcards]

Yesterday I visited the Penates - the house of Russian painter Ilya Repin. It stands surrounded by pine forest, and the Bay of Finland is a 5 minute walk from the house.

The wooden house is very Russian style with little roofs and multiple terraces and enamel fireplaces in every room. There's a large studio on the second floor with large windows and skylights to allow as much natural light in as possible.

Repin was a very prolific painter and a huge name in his day, but also a bit of an eccentric. He always slept in a small unheated terrace, even through the winter. Him and his wife were vegetarian and practiced no-help dinner parties (with no servants at the door or the table). His weekly dinner parties on Wednesdays were attended by a multitude of artists, musicians, scientists. He was friends with Gorky, Mayakovsky, Chukovsky, Tolstoy, Yesenin etc. etc.

(Last picture: Ilya Repin paints opera singer Fyodor Shalyapin in his studio, 1914.)

#russia #wooden houses #museums

[doe-eyedwerewolf]

Rose O’Neill, “Sweet Monsters”

#rose o’neill #aka the kewpie lady #sweet monsters #the kewpie lady #art #I want to visit her house and museum soooo bad #I love her kewpies but these monsters have my heart

[fashionsfromhistory]

Bodice

House of Worth (French)

Mid 1890s

Fashion Museum Bath via Twitter

#bodice #fashion history #historical fashion #1890s #turn of the century #belle epoque #worth #house of worth #1894 #1895 #1896 #floral #flower print #off white #silk #france #fashion museum bath #popular

[blueiskewl]

Moscow Auction House Sells a $1 Million Painting Stolen from a Ukrainian Museum

In Russia, Ukrainian artist Ivan Aivazovsky’s painting “Moonlit Night” has been put up for auction, according to Ukraine’s former Deputy Attorney General and Prosecutor of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Gyunduz Mamedov, who has reported the auction plans.

Russia’s looting and destruction of Ukrainian museums and cultural heritage sites have resulted in significant losses, with nearly 40 museums plundered and almost 700 heritage sites damaged or destroyed since the invasion began in February 2022, causing cultural losses estimated in the hundreds of millions of euros.

The first report that “Moonlit Night” will be the main lot of the auction, which will take place at the Moscow Auction House on 18 February, appeared on the Telegram channel by Russia’s state-funded news agency RIA Novosti, noting that the painting was estimated at 100 million rubles (approximately $1.09 million) before the sale.

‘In 2017, [Interpol], at the request of [Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Crimea], put the paintings on the international wanted list. Thus, Russia openly disregards [international law], as according to the 1970 UNESCO Convention, the export of cultural properties and transfer of ownership is prohibited,” Mamedov emphasized on X.

In 2014, during the early stages of Russia’s occupation of Crimea, Aivazovsky’s painting “Moonlit Night” was illegally transferred to the Simferopol Art Museum, along with 52 other artworks.

In 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, some of his works were destroyed in an airstrike on the Kuindzhi Art Museum in Mariupol, and others were looted by Russian forces from Mariupol and Kherson museums, including “The Storm Subsides,” which was moved to the Central Taurida Museum in Simferopol, Crimea.

#Ivan Aivazovsky #ukraine #russia #russian war crimes #looted art #stolen art #Ivan Aivazovsky 'Moonlit Night' #art #artist #art work #art world #art news #Moscow Auction House Sells a $1 Million Painting Stolen from a Ukrainian Museum

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Pale blue silk ball gown, 1898, French.

By Jean-Philippe Worth.

Met Museum.

#Jean Philippe worth #house of worth #womenswear #extant garments #silk #19th century #dress #met museum #france #1890s #1898 #1890s evening #ball gown #1890s dress #1890s ball gown #1890s France

[marzipanandminutiae]

so this is fairly random, but i’m curious to know if you’ve ever heard of/been to the driehouse museum in chicago? it’s a preserved/restored home from the guilded age, and it’s genuinely one of the most beautiful places i’ve ever seen—i would highly recommend looking it up online! i visited it today (and almost cried at how stunning some of the architectural features were, haha) and thought it seemed like something you would appreciate.

I looked it up. Ye. Gods.

Next time I'm in Chicago...

#ask #anon #museums #house museums #historical house #driehaus museum

[saintartemis]

Musings of a Museum Professional.

The reoccurring question my coworker and I have been asking each other all morning is, “Why are none of the shelves for this collection labelled???? How are we supposed to find anything?!?!?”

If ya know, ya know.

#museums #museum life #museum work #museum worker #historic house #museum collections #house museums #artemis speaks #putting this on the list of projects #to address at a later date

[streetsofsalem]

Deerfield Thanksgiving

I know that it was a back-to-big-family-Thanksgiving for many people, but because of health and almost-conflicting family events my husband and I found ourselves alone this year. We made a last-minute decision to head to Historic Deerfield, where we stayed at the Inn for two nights and had a lovely Thanksgiving dinner at the Inn at Boltwood (previously the Lord Jeffrey Inn) in Amherst. We ran…

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#Architecture #Arts and Crafts #Day Trips #Decorative Arts #Historic Deerfield #holidays #House Museums #Museum Neighborhoods #Thanksgiving #Witness Stones Project

[villafinale]

Celebrating Black Inventors and Innovators: Part 7

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#Black History #Black Inventors #Collections #History #house museums #Innovations #Inventions

[theinvisiblemuseum]

starboy 🌟

#watched the craziest episode of house drawing this #regulus black #invisible museum