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This is a Ruckers moa 17th-century keyboard instrument

https://piefed.social/c/forumlibre@jlai.lu/p/2313152/this-is-a-ruckers-moa-17th-century-keyboard-instrument

You don't see this in museum cafes.
Today's clickbait brings tears to my eyes.
Onion rings à la Kolhapur.
Well and truly 'hand' made!
#globalmuseum #streetfood #onions

Ever guarded, George Washington was a difficult man to paint. He once complained about “the irksomeness of sitting and the time I lose by it.” But his most famous portraitist, Gilbert Stuart, worked tirelessly to put the general at ease. And while Washington only sat for him twice, Stuart created more than 100 paintings of the first US president.

Washington may not have liked sitting for portraits, but he understood their significance.
https://www.nga.gov/stories/articles/george-washington-pictured?utm_source=globalmuseum #globalmuseum #art #USA250

An essential event for conservators?
Handle With Care: New Approaches to Conservation.
14 October 2026.
Conservators work across all types of museum collections, from textiles and paintings to coins and natural sciences. Often (but not always) working behind the scenes, this key part of the workforce ensures that collections are maintained for public enjoyment and learning
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https://www.museumsassociation.org/events/handle-with-care-new-approaches-to-conservation/ #globalmuseum #museums #conservator #events

This is a Ruckers mother-and-child virginal—a 17th-century keyboard instrument with a second, smaller instrument built into it, tuned an octave higher. The “child” could be pulled out to play duets or set on top of the “mother” to add a jangly, buzzing color to the main sound—a Renaissance-era layering trick, centuries before mixing desks. Antwerp instrument makers were doing this in the 1600s.
@BrianRoemmele #globalmuseum #museums #musicalinstruments

A video captured of a Kestrel bird showing off it amazing hovering ability.
@joycomes.bsky.social
#globalmuseum #birds #kestrels

The urge to keep all the tabs open is not a recent thing.
Pictured: a 300-year-old library tool that enabled a researcher to have seven books open at once, yet conveniently nearby (Palafoxiana Library, Puebla)
@unmlawlibrary #globalmuseum #library #libraries #reading #history

The Rutles parodied The Beatles at many of their different stages, including the Abbey Road song "Get Back," played live on a rooftop. The Rutles version became "Get Up and Go."
#Rutles #TheRutles #GetUpAndGo #globalmuseum #music

Hidden museum gallery to reopen after 83 years.
A gallery that has remained closed to the public since World War Two is to reopen at London's Natural History Museum next month.
The gallery, which has remained hidden from view since 1943, will reopen from 16 September, featuring 50 objects which show our evolving relationship with the natural world.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr59grpzqgeo #globalmuseum #museums

England’s Ancient Trees Are Dying in the Heat.
Extreme temperatures and drought are adding to the stress on oak trees that have lived for hundreds of years and play a key role in the national imagination.
https://archive.ph/W654f #globalmuseum #trees #heatwave #climatechange #history

A scathing report by French government investigators accuses Pierre-Olivier Costa, the recently suspended president of Marseille’s Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (MuCEM), of sexual and moral harassment, breaching rules for granting public contracts, and putting the southern French city’s only national museum “at risk,” according to a Le Monde investigation.
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/report-accuses-marseille-museum-president-of-sexual-harassment-and-putting-institution-at-risk-1234795542/ #globalmuseum #museums #Marseille

Donald Trump and Natalie Harp get matching catering carts.
“I don’t see the big issue with us spending so much time together. We’re work colleagues. It’s hardly surprising that we’re often in each other’s company. Colleagues do things like this all the time. Okay, maybe not the matching catering carts, but they borrow books from each other. It just so happens mine and Donnie’s friendship involves cowering behind mini tubs of Pringles."
https://archive.ph/xpGZ5 #globalmuseum #humour #humor

A museum-shelf mystery reveals 6,500-year-old human tooth pendant in Serbia.
More than 6,500 years ago, someone carefully drilled a hole in a human tooth, strung it on a cord and likely used it as a necklace.
https://phys.org/news/2026-08-museum-shelf-mystery-reveals-year.html #globalmuseum #museums #jewellery

Rare letters from kin of missing soldiers are donated to Gettysburg museum.
A Virginian asked a Gettysburg doctor to help find the body of his brother, killed in the Civil War battle there. A Georgia man spoke of the precious “dust” of a slain relative.
https://archive.ph/yI7O8
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/08/22/rare-letters-kin-missing-soldiers-are-donated-gettysburg-museum/ #globalmuseum #museums #Gettysburg

⭐ JOB POSTING⭐
Registrar, National Museum Cardiff.
Permanent/Full Time.
Salary Range: Grade F: £45,119.99 - £47,704.86.
Welsh Language Level Requirement: Desirable.
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https://jobs.theguardian.com/job/10177881/registrar/?TrackID=8&utm_source=globalmuseum
#globalmuseum #museumjobs #museums #Wales

1894 Silsby Fourth-Size Steam Pumper: Victorian Firefighting Classic.
A rare and impressive example of late-19th-century firefighting technology.
Built by the American Fire Engine Company (later part of American LaFrance), this horse-drawn apparatus was powered by a steam boiler driving a rotary pump capable of delivering around 500 gallons of water per minute.
Originally delivered to the Philadelphia Fire Department.
#globalmuseum #museums #firefighting #vintage

The ultra rich are collecting fossils, and that’s bad for science – #podcast.
As dinosaur fossils sell to private collectors for increasingly large sums, scientists are worried that domestic museums are being priced out of the market, and in turn scientists are missing out on the opportunity to make new observations. Madeleine Finlay spoke to science correspondent Nicola Davis to find out how fossils became big business.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2026/aug/18/ultra-rich-collecting-fossils-bad-for-science-podcast?utm_source=globalmuseum #globalmuseum #fossils

⏰ Clocks & Watches.
Unique designs Vintage & Modern Great Gifts For The Home in the Global Museum Store
https://zazzle.com/collections/clocks_watches-119470265247008848?rf=238667188152553553 #globalmuseum #clocks #watches #homedecor

Treasures from the National Museum of Ireland are taking centre stage in Celtic Art Across the Ages at Harvard Art Museums, the first major exhibition in the United States dedicated to #Celtic art. Featuring remarkable objects such as the Somerset Hoard from Co. Galway, the exhibition showcases the creativity, craftsmanship and cultural connections of Iron Age Ireland within a wider European story that spans over 2,500 years.
https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collections-Research/Irish-Antiquities-Division-Collections/Irish-Antiquities-Articles/All-in-a-Days-work/Blowing-our-own-trumpet?utm_source=globalmuseum
#globalmuseum #museums #exhibitions

Florida opens first jellyfish museum in the U.S.
The facility, opened by Ukrainian refugees Alex and Yana Yanovsky, features more than 20 species of the aquatic creatures.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2026/08/20/first-jellyfish-museum-united-states-opens-florida/
#globalmuseum #museums #jellyfish

A spectacular new museum dedicated to whales is opening in Europe next year.
Whale blood in jars, gothic-arch rib bones and a soundscape room that vibrates in your chest? Sounds like a whale of a time
https://www.timeout.com/news/new-whale-museum-norway-081926 #globalmuseum #museums #whales #Norway

Packing a party into a single cabinet. This hand-cranked Barrel Organ from Germany’s Black Forest set more than a dozen dancing figures in motion, all in sync with its music. Made between 1820 and 1840, it’s proof that mechanical entertainment has always had a flair for the dramatic.

The Guinness Conservator Jere Ryder for demonstrates this mechanical musical instrument.
#MechanicalMonday #GuinnessCollection #morrismuseum #globalmuseum #museums

⭐ HUMOUR SPOT⭐
On the subject of education
Rowan Atkinson & Mel Smith
#globalmuseum #humour #humor

⭐ JOB POSTING⭐
Exhibition Designer/Preparator.
The Weatherspoon Art Museum.
UNC Greensboro – Greensboro, NC.
This position supports the Weatherspoon Art Museum’s priorities through the timely and thorough completion of all aspects of collections care and exhibition installation.
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https://spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/35699 #globalmuseum #museumjobs #museums

Working on a new museum, renovation, expansion, or other major facilities project? Join fellow museum professionals for an informal space to swap ideas, share challenges, and learn from colleagues who get it.

Starting September 8 at 2 p.m. EST
Meets every other month throughout the academic year!

Come when your schedule and project allow. No pressure, just good conversation and shared expertise.

Interested in joining? Email [email protected]
#globalmuseum #museums

Discovered in a Cardboard Box, Months After Thieves Snuck Into a Museum and Whisked Them Away Into the Night.
The artworks by Cézanne, Renoir and Matisse disappeared in a three-minute heist earlier this year. Now, police have arrested five suspects in connection with the burglary in northern Italy.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/stolen-masterpieces-worth-10-million-discovered-in-a-cardboard-box-months-after-thieves-snuck-into-a-museum-and-whisked-them-away-into-the-night-180989358/ #globalmuseum #museums #artheist #crime

Giraffe and Bovine Petroglyphs, Neolithic Period (c. 8000 BP), Wadi Mathendous, Libya.
@archaeologyart #globalmuseum #Neolithic #archaeology #animals

Ever heard traditional Gaelic Irish music sung by an a cappella group like this?

This is Ceann Dubh Dilis (My Sweet, Dark-Haired Love), arranged by Michael McGlynn and performed by the Russian group Spokanki.

https://www.instagram.com/spokanki/?hl=en

@FigsFromPlums #globalmuseum #music #Gaelic #acappella

What’s the Best 🏛️ Emoji? Antiquities Curators Have Thoughts.
In a series of recent social media posts, curators at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles are rating the best variations on art-adjacent emojis.
https://archive.ph/DY2qE #globalmuseum #museums #Emoji

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/style/emoji-getty-museum-instagram.html

Have you ever seen a glass squid? Their bodies are mostly see-through, helping them hide from predators, except for their opaque eyes. However, a light-producing organ below their eyes emits flashes, mimicking sunlight from above to camouflage them from threats lurking below.
@AMNH #globalmuseum #squid