#british-museum — Public Fediverse posts

While we're talking about old multi-hyphenate guys we met in this week's episode...

I couldn't find a picture of Pieter van den Keere -- whose globe popularized the newfangled constellation, but I did find this... *interesting* (upsetting) engraving he published...

So, you're welcome, I guess. Back to #camelopardalis astrophotography tomorrow!

Listen to the pod here: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/camelopardalis-cosmic-background/

📷 : https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/21470001

#astronomy #drawings #history #Historical #BritishMuseum #Art #Engraving #camelopardalis #globe #engraving

“British Museum”. London, 8 May 2024.

#ThrowbackThursday #TBT #Photography #cityscapes #BritishMuseum #history #London

https://thomasgerdes.de/british-museum/

Norbert Elias 'Lessons in Sociology' 1975:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89nb0RYbI2g#ddg-play

#norbertelias #humanities #sociology #anthropology #britishmuseum #processual #human #socialbehavior #sociogenetic #psychogenetic #psychology

Palestinian ambassador protests to Foreign Office over ’erasure’ by British Museum https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/06/palestinian-ambassador-protest-foreign-office-british-museum #Palestine #BritishMuseum #Heritage #Culture #Politics #UkNews #WorldNews #History #Education #MiddleEastAndNorthAfrica #Gaza #WestBank

Antiquities dealer who exposed thefts at British Museum dies aged 61 https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/apr/28/antiquities-dealer-ittai-gradel-exposed-thefts-british-museum-dies-aged-61 #BritishMuseum #Museums #Culture #UkNews #Crime #Denmark #Heritage #MetropolitanPolice

I've already submitted my entry for this month's challenge but it's a good excuse to shoot more in similar style.

Can you guess what is April's subject?

📷 #FujiFilm #X-T5
🔭XF35mm f2

#Photography #StreetPhotography #London #UK #BritishMuseum #Challenge

End of the white tents: British Museum gets go-ahead for new entrance structures

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/end-of-the-white-tents-british-museum-gets-go-ahead-for-new-entrance-structures-89038/

How 'Chief of War' recreated the spirit and history of ancestral Hawaiʻi.
'Chief of War', Apple TV's epic drama starring Jason Momoa, Luciane Buchanan and Kaina Makua, draws on the tumultuous period in Hawaiian history that ultimately led to the unification of the Hawaiian Islands. But, more than that, it builds a rich and authentic on-screen world shaped by deep cultural knowledge and artistry.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/how-chief-war-recreated-spirit-and-history-ancestral-hawaii #globalmuseum #BritishMuseum

British Museum’s controversial forecourt plans given green light.
Camden Council grants planning permission for new welcome pavilions and informal landscaping
https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2026/04/british-museums-controversial-forecourt-plans-given-green-light/ #globalmuseum #Britishmuseum #museums

That's textbook background fascism? You're too cowardly/basic to wheel and deal better funding from central government? Cool, that's a given.

Don't make particular groups have to bear the brunt of it, though!

#museums #London #BritishMuseum #NationalMuseums #Fundraising #PublicSector

@tuban_muzuru @codewizard @skinnylatte

Oh look, a text by the British Museum itself that claims it's completely okay they own another country's cultural heritage, well I'm sure the museum is entirely objective here!
They even have a carefully worded statement about Elgin acting "with the full knowledge and permission of the legal authorities of the day in both Athens and London".
The legal authorities of that day being the Ottomans, just because one colonizer sold cultural heritage to another colonizer doesn't mean we have to be okay with it.
The museum trustees have no shame and even argue that back in 1816 the colonizers themselves declared everything to be legal. How convincing.

#Parthenon #BritishMuseum

@tuban_muzuru @skinnylatte

a round of applause??
The British "cleaned" the Parthenon scupltures too invasively, thereby damaging them, and we're supposed to applaud them?!

#Parthenon #BritishMuseum

RE: https://mastodon.social/@adrianhon/116294730404430207

This is like when the BBC geolocated the Sounds content so "forrins don't listen for free" and just shrink the UK's cultural reach.

South Korea invests in it's culture and promotes it around the world, and we all know what Kimchi is, the UK wants to retreat up it's own arse does it?

Disgraceful and petty, but what do you expect of a Colonial relic?

#BritishMuseum #UKPol #BBC #UKpolitics #Xenophobia #Culture

An example of what should happen to all remains that were stolen from Country. I’m looking at you #BritishMuseum #auspol

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-13/nsw-ancestor-remains-uncle-returned-county-from-england/106440590?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link

There weren't enough pictures in the article of her work though, so I went looking for more.

The #BritishMuseum piece that she references is here. You can zoom in to see that fiber detail and it's interesting.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_2023-2001-1?selectedImageId=1613909269

How do you take a 70-metre medieval masterpiece and put it on a 780-square-metre screen? 📜 -> 📺

Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at bringing the Bayeux Tapestry to one of the most famous screens in London.

source: Elliot Wheatland-Clinch - Senior Social Media Content Producer at The British Museum

#bts #bayeuxtapestry #britishmuseum