#gallerieslibrariesarchivesmuseumsglam_ — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gallerieslibrariesarchivesmuseumsglam_, aggregated by home.social.
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Southern Methodist University: From rails to revolutions: New windows into the past in digital collections. “What do a sugar railway in Cuba, U.S. soldiers hunting Pancho Villa, and a priest blessing a taxi in Mexico have in common? They’re all part of a fascinating array of newly digitized materials now available in SMU’s Digital Collections.”
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Southern Methodist University: From rails to revolutions: New windows into the past in digital collections. “What do a sugar railway in Cuba, U.S. soldiers hunting Pancho Villa, and a priest blessing a taxi in Mexico have in common? They’re all part of a fascinating array of newly digitized materials now available in SMU’s Digital Collections.”
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Southern Methodist University: From rails to revolutions: New windows into the past in digital collections. “What do a sugar railway in Cuba, U.S. soldiers hunting Pancho Villa, and a priest blessing a taxi in Mexico have in common? They’re all part of a fascinating array of newly digitized materials now available in SMU’s Digital Collections.”
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Earthbound Report: The Green Libraries Manifesto. “It’s Green Libraries Week this week, an event that is organised by the library association CILIP. There are a handful of events across the UK, looking at the role that libraries play in climate change. They are also encouraging libraries to sign up to their manifesto.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/03/earthbound-report-the-green-libraries-manifesto/
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Earthbound Report: The Green Libraries Manifesto. “It’s Green Libraries Week this week, an event that is organised by the library association CILIP. There are a handful of events across the UK, looking at the role that libraries play in climate change. They are also encouraging libraries to sign up to their manifesto.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/03/earthbound-report-the-green-libraries-manifesto/
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Earthbound Report: The Green Libraries Manifesto. “It’s Green Libraries Week this week, an event that is organised by the library association CILIP. There are a handful of events across the UK, looking at the role that libraries play in climate change. They are also encouraging libraries to sign up to their manifesto.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/03/earthbound-report-the-green-libraries-manifesto/
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Diesachsen: Cameroonian cultural heritage to be researched. “Around 500 cultural objects from Cameroon are being researched in German museums. The aim is to reconstruct their history together with experts from Cameroon. Together with the Linden Museum in Stuttgart, the German Lost Art Foundation wants to continue researching Cameroonian cultural heritage in Germany.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/01/diesachsen-cameroonian-cultural-heritage-to-be-researched/
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Diesachsen: Cameroonian cultural heritage to be researched. “Around 500 cultural objects from Cameroon are being researched in German museums. The aim is to reconstruct their history together with experts from Cameroon. Together with the Linden Museum in Stuttgart, the German Lost Art Foundation wants to continue researching Cameroonian cultural heritage in Germany.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/01/diesachsen-cameroonian-cultural-heritage-to-be-researched/
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Diesachsen: Cameroonian cultural heritage to be researched. “Around 500 cultural objects from Cameroon are being researched in German museums. The aim is to reconstruct their history together with experts from Cameroon. Together with the Linden Museum in Stuttgart, the German Lost Art Foundation wants to continue researching Cameroonian cultural heritage in Germany.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/01/diesachsen-cameroonian-cultural-heritage-to-be-researched/
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BK Reader: Brooklyn’s Fight Against Book Bans Reaches National Milestone. “Books Unbanned, the Brooklyn Public Library initiative launched in 2022 to give young people access to books affected by censorship, has hit a major milestone: cardholders have borrowed over one million e-books.”
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BK Reader: Brooklyn’s Fight Against Book Bans Reaches National Milestone. “Books Unbanned, the Brooklyn Public Library initiative launched in 2022 to give young people access to books affected by censorship, has hit a major milestone: cardholders have borrowed over one million e-books.”
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BK Reader: Brooklyn’s Fight Against Book Bans Reaches National Milestone. “Books Unbanned, the Brooklyn Public Library initiative launched in 2022 to give young people access to books affected by censorship, has hit a major milestone: cardholders have borrowed over one million e-books.”
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BK Reader: Brooklyn’s Fight Against Book Bans Reaches National Milestone. “Books Unbanned, the Brooklyn Public Library initiative launched in 2022 to give young people access to books affected by censorship, has hit a major milestone: cardholders have borrowed over one million e-books.”
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BK Reader: Brooklyn’s Fight Against Book Bans Reaches National Milestone. “Books Unbanned, the Brooklyn Public Library initiative launched in 2022 to give young people access to books affected by censorship, has hit a major milestone: cardholders have borrowed over one million e-books.”
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Rubryka: Solutions from Ukraine: Krushelnytska Museum digitizes 500 exhibits, unveils innovative digital platform for Ukrainian museums. “The Solomiia Krushelnytska Music and Memorial Museum in Lviv, at 23 S. Krushelnytska Street, has unveiled an innovative digital platform for Ukrainian museums, with the first 500 items from its collection now available for public viewing and study.”
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Rubryka: Solutions from Ukraine: Krushelnytska Museum digitizes 500 exhibits, unveils innovative digital platform for Ukrainian museums. “The Solomiia Krushelnytska Music and Memorial Museum in Lviv, at 23 S. Krushelnytska Street, has unveiled an innovative digital platform for Ukrainian museums, with the first 500 items from its collection now available for public viewing and study.”
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Rubryka: Solutions from Ukraine: Krushelnytska Museum digitizes 500 exhibits, unveils innovative digital platform for Ukrainian museums. “The Solomiia Krushelnytska Music and Memorial Museum in Lviv, at 23 S. Krushelnytska Street, has unveiled an innovative digital platform for Ukrainian museums, with the first 500 items from its collection now available for public viewing and study.”
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Rubryka: Solutions from Ukraine: Krushelnytska Museum digitizes 500 exhibits, unveils innovative digital platform for Ukrainian museums. “The Solomiia Krushelnytska Music and Memorial Museum in Lviv, at 23 S. Krushelnytska Street, has unveiled an innovative digital platform for Ukrainian museums, with the first 500 items from its collection now available for public viewing and study.”
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Rubryka: Solutions from Ukraine: Krushelnytska Museum digitizes 500 exhibits, unveils innovative digital platform for Ukrainian museums. “The Solomiia Krushelnytska Music and Memorial Museum in Lviv, at 23 S. Krushelnytska Street, has unveiled an innovative digital platform for Ukrainian museums, with the first 500 items from its collection now available for public viewing and study.”
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New York Times: Amid the A.I. Deluge, What Counts as Art? Ask the Curators. This link goes to a gift article. “With the rise of artificial intelligence, machines are increasingly engaged in the creative process, raising the question: What is art if the human hand is no longer involved?… In response, major art museums are wrestling with what, within the kaleidoscope, counts as art, and are […]
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New York Times: Amid the A.I. Deluge, What Counts as Art? Ask the Curators. This link goes to a gift article. “With the rise of artificial intelligence, machines are increasingly engaged in the creative process, raising the question: What is art if the human hand is no longer involved?… In response, major art museums are wrestling with what, within the kaleidoscope, counts as art, and are […]
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New York Times: Amid the A.I. Deluge, What Counts as Art? Ask the Curators. This link goes to a gift article. “With the rise of artificial intelligence, machines are increasingly engaged in the creative process, raising the question: What is art if the human hand is no longer involved?… In response, major art museums are wrestling with what, within the kaleidoscope, counts as art, and are […]
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New York Times: Amid the A.I. Deluge, What Counts as Art? Ask the Curators. This link goes to a gift article. “With the rise of artificial intelligence, machines are increasingly engaged in the creative process, raising the question: What is art if the human hand is no longer involved?… In response, major art museums are wrestling with what, within the kaleidoscope, counts as art, and are […]
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New York Times: Amid the A.I. Deluge, What Counts as Art? Ask the Curators. This link goes to a gift article. “With the rise of artificial intelligence, machines are increasingly engaged in the creative process, raising the question: What is art if the human hand is no longer involved?… In response, major art museums are wrestling with what, within the kaleidoscope, counts as art, and are […]
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International Business Times: Paris Louvre Heist Lays Bare Museum Security Complaints. “How could robbers with power tools break in and steal crowns and sapphire and emerald necklaces? And how can a museum spanning 73,000 square metres and housing around 35,000 works of art be secured? The government said authorities had already begun reviewing security at the vast Paris venue before the heist. […]
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International Business Times: Paris Louvre Heist Lays Bare Museum Security Complaints. “How could robbers with power tools break in and steal crowns and sapphire and emerald necklaces? And how can a museum spanning 73,000 square metres and housing around 35,000 works of art be secured? The government said authorities had already begun reviewing security at the vast Paris venue before the heist. […]
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International Business Times: Paris Louvre Heist Lays Bare Museum Security Complaints. “How could robbers with power tools break in and steal crowns and sapphire and emerald necklaces? And how can a museum spanning 73,000 square metres and housing around 35,000 works of art be secured? The government said authorities had already begun reviewing security at the vast Paris venue before the heist. […]
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Liverpool John Moores University: Introducing the Unity Theatre Archive Project. “Hi everyone, my name is Megan and I’ve recently joined LJMU’s Special Collections and Archives as the Unity Theatre Project Archivist. Over the next year I’ll be cataloguing the papers of the Unity Theatre as part of its Heritage Lottery funded project, ‘A Radical Reimagining.’”
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Liverpool John Moores University: Introducing the Unity Theatre Archive Project. “Hi everyone, my name is Megan and I’ve recently joined LJMU’s Special Collections and Archives as the Unity Theatre Project Archivist. Over the next year I’ll be cataloguing the papers of the Unity Theatre as part of its Heritage Lottery funded project, ‘A Radical Reimagining.’”
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Liverpool John Moores University: Introducing the Unity Theatre Archive Project. “Hi everyone, my name is Megan and I’ve recently joined LJMU’s Special Collections and Archives as the Unity Theatre Project Archivist. Over the next year I’ll be cataloguing the papers of the Unity Theatre as part of its Heritage Lottery funded project, ‘A Radical Reimagining.’”
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"The Medieval in Museums": Fran Allfrey (University of York) and Maia Blumberg are calling for contributions to a proposed edited volume discussing the ways in which the "medieval" appears in a range of GLAM institutions.
Info:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17D64zTaQqLMdkXhMZd0II0Wl2An9Gac_PTHjpYs1_Zw/edit?tab=t.0#medieval #heritagestudies #GLAM #GalleriesLibrariesArchivesMuseumsGLAM_
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"The Medieval in Museums": Fran Allfrey (University of York) and Maia Blumberg are calling for contributions to a proposed edited volume discussing the ways in which the "medieval" appears in a range of GLAM institutions.
Info:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17D64zTaQqLMdkXhMZd0II0Wl2An9Gac_PTHjpYs1_Zw/edit?tab=t.0#medieval #heritagestudies #GLAM #GalleriesLibrariesArchivesMuseumsGLAM_
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"The Medieval in Museums": Fran Allfrey (University of York) and Maia Blumberg are calling for contributions to a proposed edited volume discussing the ways in which the "medieval" appears in a range of GLAM institutions.
Info:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17D64zTaQqLMdkXhMZd0II0Wl2An9Gac_PTHjpYs1_Zw/edit?tab=t.0#medieval #heritagestudies #GLAM #GalleriesLibrariesArchivesMuseumsGLAM_
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Associated Press: Hair museum filled with century-old mementos closes its doors, scattering contents around the nation. “For about 30 years, this hair art collection in the Kansas City suburb of Independence attracted an eclectic group of gawkers that included the likes of heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne. But the museum’s namesake, Leila Cohoon, died last November at the age of 92. Now her […]
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Associated Press: Hair museum filled with century-old mementos closes its doors, scattering contents around the nation. “For about 30 years, this hair art collection in the Kansas City suburb of Independence attracted an eclectic group of gawkers that included the likes of heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne. But the museum’s namesake, Leila Cohoon, died last November at the age of 92. Now her […]
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Associated Press: Hair museum filled with century-old mementos closes its doors, scattering contents around the nation. “For about 30 years, this hair art collection in the Kansas City suburb of Independence attracted an eclectic group of gawkers that included the likes of heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne. But the museum’s namesake, Leila Cohoon, died last November at the age of 92. Now her […]
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Associated Press: Hair museum filled with century-old mementos closes its doors, scattering contents around the nation. “For about 30 years, this hair art collection in the Kansas City suburb of Independence attracted an eclectic group of gawkers that included the likes of heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne. But the museum’s namesake, Leila Cohoon, died last November at the age of 92. Now her […]
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Daily Tar Heel: UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’. “The UNC School of Data Science and Society and the School of Information and Library Science will be consolidating into a new school focused on artificial intelligence.” Disgusting.
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Daily Tar Heel: UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’. “The UNC School of Data Science and Society and the School of Information and Library Science will be consolidating into a new school focused on artificial intelligence.” Disgusting.
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Daily Tar Heel: UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’. “The UNC School of Data Science and Society and the School of Information and Library Science will be consolidating into a new school focused on artificial intelligence.” Disgusting.
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Nation Cymru: Thousands of images from Amgueddfa Cymru now available to access online. “Amgueddfa Cymru has released over 2000 images into the public domain making them freely available on a new platform. It puts Wales at the forefront of open access and on par with global museums such as the Natural History Museum, Smithsonian, Rijksmuseum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.”
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Nation Cymru: Thousands of images from Amgueddfa Cymru now available to access online. “Amgueddfa Cymru has released over 2000 images into the public domain making them freely available on a new platform. It puts Wales at the forefront of open access and on par with global museums such as the Natural History Museum, Smithsonian, Rijksmuseum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.”
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Nation Cymru: Thousands of images from Amgueddfa Cymru now available to access online. “Amgueddfa Cymru has released over 2000 images into the public domain making them freely available on a new platform. It puts Wales at the forefront of open access and on par with global museums such as the Natural History Museum, Smithsonian, Rijksmuseum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.”
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ArchDaily: Reclaiming the Narrative: A New Generation of Museums in West Africa. “Although varying in purpose and form, they have some common goals: addressing the need for restitution of many artifacts taken during colonialism and mostly kept in European museums; and defining a museum with local identity as opposed to a non-contextual import.”
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ArchDaily: Reclaiming the Narrative: A New Generation of Museums in West Africa. “Although varying in purpose and form, they have some common goals: addressing the need for restitution of many artifacts taken during colonialism and mostly kept in European museums; and defining a museum with local identity as opposed to a non-contextual import.”
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ArchDaily: Reclaiming the Narrative: A New Generation of Museums in West Africa. “Although varying in purpose and form, they have some common goals: addressing the need for restitution of many artifacts taken during colonialism and mostly kept in European museums; and defining a museum with local identity as opposed to a non-contextual import.”
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ArchDaily: Reclaiming the Narrative: A New Generation of Museums in West Africa. “Although varying in purpose and form, they have some common goals: addressing the need for restitution of many artifacts taken during colonialism and mostly kept in European museums; and defining a museum with local identity as opposed to a non-contextual import.”
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ArchDaily: Reclaiming the Narrative: A New Generation of Museums in West Africa. “Although varying in purpose and form, they have some common goals: addressing the need for restitution of many artifacts taken during colonialism and mostly kept in European museums; and defining a museum with local identity as opposed to a non-contextual import.”
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The Register: Ransomware attack linked to museum break-in and theft of golden exhibits. “Dozens of French museums fell victim to a ransomware attack in August 2024, and the nation’s Natural History Museum copped another attack in July 2025…. Last week the Museum discovered that thieves had broken into its minerals display section by using an angle grinder to cut through a door, before […]
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The Register: Ransomware attack linked to museum break-in and theft of golden exhibits. “Dozens of French museums fell victim to a ransomware attack in August 2024, and the nation’s Natural History Museum copped another attack in July 2025…. Last week the Museum discovered that thieves had broken into its minerals display section by using an angle grinder to cut through a door, before […]
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The Register: Ransomware attack linked to museum break-in and theft of golden exhibits. “Dozens of French museums fell victim to a ransomware attack in August 2024, and the nation’s Natural History Museum copped another attack in July 2025…. Last week the Museum discovered that thieves had broken into its minerals display section by using an angle grinder to cut through a door, before […]
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The Register: Ransomware attack linked to museum break-in and theft of golden exhibits. “Dozens of French museums fell victim to a ransomware attack in August 2024, and the nation’s Natural History Museum copped another attack in July 2025…. Last week the Museum discovered that thieves had broken into its minerals display section by using an angle grinder to cut through a door, before […]
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The Register: Ransomware attack linked to museum break-in and theft of golden exhibits. “Dozens of French museums fell victim to a ransomware attack in August 2024, and the nation’s Natural History Museum copped another attack in July 2025…. Last week the Museum discovered that thieves had broken into its minerals display section by using an angle grinder to cut through a door, before […]
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UNESCO: UNESCO launches the World’s First Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects at a global scale at MONDIACULT 2025. “Three years after its announcement at MONDIACULT 2022, UNESCO is launching an innovative initiative: the Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects. This global platform harnesses cutting-edge digital technology to raise awareness of the illicit trafficking of cultural property, one of […]
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UNESCO: UNESCO launches the World’s First Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects at a global scale at MONDIACULT 2025. “Three years after its announcement at MONDIACULT 2022, UNESCO is launching an innovative initiative: the Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects. This global platform harnesses cutting-edge digital technology to raise awareness of the illicit trafficking of cultural property, one of […]
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UNESCO: UNESCO launches the World’s First Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects at a global scale at MONDIACULT 2025. “Three years after its announcement at MONDIACULT 2022, UNESCO is launching an innovative initiative: the Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects. This global platform harnesses cutting-edge digital technology to raise awareness of the illicit trafficking of cultural property, one of […]
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Times-Colonist: A ‘magnificent obsession’: Maritime Museum acquires virtual encyclopedia of nautical history. “The Nauticapedia’s vessel databases, articles, reference tables and images attract four million web hits from 130 countries annually. [John] MacFarlane recently donated the comprehensive resource, including all of its rights and contents, to the Maritime Museum of B.C. to be the […]
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Times-Colonist: A ‘magnificent obsession’: Maritime Museum acquires virtual encyclopedia of nautical history. “The Nauticapedia’s vessel databases, articles, reference tables and images attract four million web hits from 130 countries annually. [John] MacFarlane recently donated the comprehensive resource, including all of its rights and contents, to the Maritime Museum of B.C. to be the […]
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Times-Colonist: A ‘magnificent obsession’: Maritime Museum acquires virtual encyclopedia of nautical history. “The Nauticapedia’s vessel databases, articles, reference tables and images attract four million web hits from 130 countries annually. [John] MacFarlane recently donated the comprehensive resource, including all of its rights and contents, to the Maritime Museum of B.C. to be the […]
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Times-Colonist: A ‘magnificent obsession’: Maritime Museum acquires virtual encyclopedia of nautical history. “The Nauticapedia’s vessel databases, articles, reference tables and images attract four million web hits from 130 countries annually. [John] MacFarlane recently donated the comprehensive resource, including all of its rights and contents, to the Maritime Museum of B.C. to be the […]