YouTube description: In 2015, what we knew about Iron Age shields all changed. And it changed in a field in Leicester... Iron Age Curator Sophia Adams explains the construction of the first organic... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 9 months 4 weeks ago • 144 views • 15:29

This moment comes from 2016 offshore of Los Angeles in the in NOAA Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. Our Corps of Exploration originally guessed this purple orb could be a pleurobranch sea slug... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 3 weeks ago • 89 views

In 2011, The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia, which house the Museum's renowned collection of Islamic... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 3 months ago • 60 views • 17:44

The Wasserspiele of Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe are 300 years old, powered entirely by gravity, and entertaining tourists. https://museum-kassel.de/en/museums-parks-palaces/unesco-world-heritage-site-of-bergpark-wilhelmshoehe... continue reading

posted by eric3579 1 year 10 months 2 weeks ago • 377 views • 4:33

The Smithsonian Natural History Museum houses 147 million specimens — everything from pickled animals to priceless gems to dinosaur bones. But less than 1% of it's on display. The rest is hidden behind... continue reading

posted by eric3579 1 year 11 months 1 week ago • 59 views • 12:15

Dorothea Lange’s photos of the incarceration of Japanese Americans went largely unseen for decades. US President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed Executive Order 9066 in February 1942 — two months... continue reading

posted by eric3579 2 years 3 months 1 week ago • 82 views • 14:39

For more information about the museum, visit http://www.wheelsthroughtime.com

posted by bobknight33 3 years 7 months 1 week ago • 21 views • 15:57

https://youtu.be/vfWUorR8D60 Christmas isn’t just a time for presents, cookies, and holiday cheer, but the hunting period of Iceland’s murderous monster feline, the Yule Cat. This giant, fluffy... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 571 views • 10:04

"... Step aboard Discovery and explore the space shuttle in 360. National Air and Space Museum and Google Arts & Culture have teamed up to bring a piece of Hubble’s history to life like never before.... continue reading

posted by ant 4 years 8 months 1 week ago • 18 views • 6:55

"Ant venom delivery captured, for the first time, in slow-motion (1,000fps) & up-close video. The ants (and stingers) featured in this video are the Florida harvester ant Pogonomyrmex badius and the trap-jaw... continue reading

posted by ant 4 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 700 views • 3:31

YT: The Forbes Pigment Collection, at the Harvard Art Museums, is a collection of pigments, binders, and other art materials for researchers to use as standards: so they can tell originals from restorations... continue reading

posted by Fantomas 5 years 1 month ago • 446 views • 5:13

"... an educational video produced by The Computer Museum and hosted by David Neil of PBS's Newton's Apple. Join David Neil and his four young companions on an entertaining and illuminating trek through... continue reading

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YouTube description: Watch a time-lapse video of the installation and deinstallation (rotation) of large carpets and mounted textiles in The Met's galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 337 views • 1:21

n Porthcurno, Cornwall, there's an old telegraph cable landing station. It's how Britain talked to the Empire -- and it's now a museum. But the technology here isn't quite as obsolete as you might think.

posted by nanrod 5 years 8 months ago • 329 views • 3:57

YouTube description: Chi-Tien Lui is an electrical engineer and technician whose craft has evolved to the realm of high art. Born in China, he trained as a technician in Taiwan before moving to the... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months 4 weeks ago • 1,047 views • 4:22

Irving Finkel talks Mesopotamian demons, ghosts and sprites and how to deal with them.

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 1 week ago • 605 views • 5:52

Powerhouse Museum – Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Australia has created an incredible interactive area for kids, including giant wall screens that display scanned drawings made by the children... continue reading

posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 1 week ago • 346 views • 1:36

US Car Number 1, the Ferdinand Magellan, sits in the Gold Coast Railway Museum in Miami. It's 120 tonnes of bulletproof, armoured railcar: a train carriage designed to move the President of the United... continue reading

posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 2 weeks ago • 398 views • 4:59

YouTube description: We look at some super rare anatomical models at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Featuring Bethany Palumbo from The Oxford University Museum of Natural History... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 404 views • 6:02

YouTube description: Duh, except for the sky… and the ocean… Among living things, the color blue is oddly rare. Blue rocks, blue sky, blue water, sure. But blue animals? They are few and far... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 3 months 1 week ago • 606 views • 8:27