#Museum

Amelia Marra

Miss_Meels

THREAD (a reading list for white museum folk, by non-white museum folk)Some of my fellow white museum workers have shared that they discovered this @PorchiaMuseM's "Cartography: a Black woman’s response

Fuchsia Hart

FuchsiaHart

This remarkable embroidered tent from 19th-century Iran, now in the Cleveland Museum of Art, has been popping up on social media quite a bit over the last few days, so

Stephen Punwasi

StephenPunwasi

Okay, so it's been a while since I did a supervillain school post, so I'll try to make this one good. Let's talk about J. Paul Getty. Looking at how

Radharamn Das

RadharamnDas

They said Mahabharat, Ramayan & all Vedic scriptures are children's bedtime stories (mythology) & figment of imaginations.And when India's topmost archaeologist Dr. S.R Rao, started finding exact archaeological evidences in

Simon Clarke MP

SimonClarkeMP

Our history is complex, as is inevitably the case for any nation state of at least 1,200 years. Re-writing parts of that history, or seeking to erase them because they

james

agnte

Woohoo I left the datacenter and it’s still daylight What did I miss Not this sunset Needs more “M” powerhouse museum Down we go parasite style

Stonewall Jackson

1776Stonewall

Today In History, 1911: The Mona Lisa Is Stolen from the Louvre: Let's go over some history - Leonardo Da Vinci began painting the Mona Lisa in 1503. The painting

Andrew King

twitandrewking

A Random Tribute To The Bic PenThey say the pen is mightier than the sword, and my weapon of words since grade school has always been the Bic Pen, still

Advaid അദ്വൈത്

Advaidism

“Theyyam is a Dalit dance and each legendary story is grim. A righteous person from the lower-castes stands up for his rights, is killed for his insolence, and comes alive

Carey Newman - Hayalthkin'geme

blueravenart

1. This isn't the way that I wanted to see my name in the New York Times. Nor is it something I want the many people, items and stories on

Michael Wright

bymichaelwright

The past few. years, I’ve been looking for buildings that exist in the gap between art and religion. Are they museums? galleries? churches? something else? Here are a few I

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

This is the excavation site under the #AcropolisMuseum in #Athens. While the museum displays the Classical era - the period most traditionally associated w/ Athens - the excavation below showcases

Steve Hunnisett

Blitzwalker

SHORT THREAD/Whilst in South Kensington earlier today, I thought I'd take some photos to give a "then and now" perspective on a V-1 incident from 3 July 1944, which is

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

reddymadhavan

Look, I have no major objection to Karwa Chauth (bigger battles to fight etc) but this Bollywood idea that only North Indian festivals are mainstream is nonsense. With that in

Steppeland Bear

pogchump2

Went to probably the weirdest fucking mall today This sign was posted outside and I still don't fully know what it means Also there's a tiny WWII museum inside, which

madeline odent

oldenoughtosay

Okay heritage folx, quote tweet this with the story of That Time You Broke an Artefact. DMs open if you need to be anonymous. anon submission okay y’all both screwed

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