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
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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 1 month 1 week ago • 89 viewsIn 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 2 weeks ago • 60 views • 17:44The 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 11 months ago • 377 views • 4:33The 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 3 weeks ago • 59 views • 12:15Dorothea 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 3 weeks ago • 82 views • 14:39For more information about the museum, visit http://www.wheelsthroughtime.com
posted by bobknight33 3 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 21 views • 15:57https://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 4 months 1 week 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 3 weeks 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 9 months ago • 700 views • 3:31YT: 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 2 weeks 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
posted by ant 5 years 6 months 1 week ago • 30 views • 26:32YouTube 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 8 months 1 week ago • 337 views • 1:21n 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 2 weeks ago • 329 views • 3:57YouTube 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) 6 years 1 week ago • 1,047 views • 4:22Irving Finkel talks Mesopotamian demons, ghosts and sprites and how to deal with them.
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 3 weeks ago • 605 views • 5:52Powerhouse 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 3 weeks ago • 346 views • 1:36US 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 1 month ago • 398 views • 4:59YouTube 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 2 months 1 week ago • 404 views • 6:02YouTube 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 3 weeks ago • 606 views • 8:27