#museumcollections — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #museumcollections, aggregated by home.social.
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Leamington Observer: British Motor Museum image archive to become more accessible. “The project, running from spring 2026 to early 2027, will provide unprecedented access for visually impaired visitors to a historically significant collection of 20th century photographic negatives. This digital accessibility project will produce digital twins of a currently inaccessible collection using […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/leamington-observer-british-motor-museum-image-archive-to-become-more-accessible/ -
Leamington Observer: British Motor Museum image archive to become more accessible. “The project, running from spring 2026 to early 2027, will provide unprecedented access for visually impaired visitors to a historically significant collection of 20th century photographic negatives. This digital accessibility project will produce digital twins of a currently inaccessible collection using […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/leamington-observer-british-motor-museum-image-archive-to-become-more-accessible/ -
Leamington Observer: British Motor Museum image archive to become more accessible. “The project, running from spring 2026 to early 2027, will provide unprecedented access for visually impaired visitors to a historically significant collection of 20th century photographic negatives. This digital accessibility project will produce digital twins of a currently inaccessible collection using […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/leamington-observer-british-motor-museum-image-archive-to-become-more-accessible/ -
Leamington Observer: British Motor Museum image archive to become more accessible. “The project, running from spring 2026 to early 2027, will provide unprecedented access for visually impaired visitors to a historically significant collection of 20th century photographic negatives. This digital accessibility project will produce digital twins of a currently inaccessible collection using […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/leamington-observer-british-motor-museum-image-archive-to-become-more-accessible/ -
Leamington Observer: British Motor Museum image archive to become more accessible. “The project, running from spring 2026 to early 2027, will provide unprecedented access for visually impaired visitors to a historically significant collection of 20th century photographic negatives. This digital accessibility project will produce digital twins of a currently inaccessible collection using […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/leamington-observer-british-motor-museum-image-archive-to-become-more-accessible/ -
Artnet: A New Landmark Survey Aims to Bring Transparency to Museum Collecting Practices. “Next week, the Penn Cultural Heritage Center (PennCHC) at the University of Pennsylvania‘s Penn Museum will launch a first-of-its-kind survey exploring the collecting practices in place at museums and libraries across America.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/artnet-a-new-landmark-survey-aims-to-bring-transparency-to-museum-collecting-practices/ -
Artnet: A New Landmark Survey Aims to Bring Transparency to Museum Collecting Practices. “Next week, the Penn Cultural Heritage Center (PennCHC) at the University of Pennsylvania‘s Penn Museum will launch a first-of-its-kind survey exploring the collecting practices in place at museums and libraries across America.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/artnet-a-new-landmark-survey-aims-to-bring-transparency-to-museum-collecting-practices/ -
Artnet: A New Landmark Survey Aims to Bring Transparency to Museum Collecting Practices. “Next week, the Penn Cultural Heritage Center (PennCHC) at the University of Pennsylvania‘s Penn Museum will launch a first-of-its-kind survey exploring the collecting practices in place at museums and libraries across America.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/artnet-a-new-landmark-survey-aims-to-bring-transparency-to-museum-collecting-practices/ -
Artnet: A New Landmark Survey Aims to Bring Transparency to Museum Collecting Practices. “Next week, the Penn Cultural Heritage Center (PennCHC) at the University of Pennsylvania‘s Penn Museum will launch a first-of-its-kind survey exploring the collecting practices in place at museums and libraries across America.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/artnet-a-new-landmark-survey-aims-to-bring-transparency-to-museum-collecting-practices/ -
Artnet: A New Landmark Survey Aims to Bring Transparency to Museum Collecting Practices. “Next week, the Penn Cultural Heritage Center (PennCHC) at the University of Pennsylvania‘s Penn Museum will launch a first-of-its-kind survey exploring the collecting practices in place at museums and libraries across America.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/artnet-a-new-landmark-survey-aims-to-bring-transparency-to-museum-collecting-practices/ -
Artforum: 85% of All US Museums Need Repairs, Study Finds. “According to a survey conducted in March by the US Government Accountability Office, a whopping 85% of all museums in the United States are in need of repair; even more dire, 77% of US museums have at least one structural issue that puts their collections at risk, according to The Art Newspaper.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/09/artforum-85-of-all-us-museums-need-repairs-study-finds/ -
https://www.europesays.com/ie/244684/ 9 new butterflies discovered in old museum archives #ButterflySpecies #ChristopheFaynel #Éire #GeneticAnalysis #IE #Ireland #MuseumCollections #NaturalHistoryMuseum #Science #SpeciesGroup
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A new video just crawled into our channel!
Jason Dunlop, curator of the 🕷️ arachnid & 🐛 myriapod collections at Museum für Naturkunde Berlin talks about...
🔸 Challenges in digitizing old collections.
🔸 Consistent naming of geographic locations.
🔸 And much more...Watch the video here:
#spiders #millipedes #centipedes #webinar #WiNoDa #arachnids #insects #museumcollections
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A new video just crawled into our channel!
Jason Dunlop, curator of the 🕷️ arachnid & 🐛 myriapod collections at Museum für Naturkunde Berlin talks about...
🔸 Challenges in digitizing old collections.
🔸 Consistent naming of geographic locations.
🔸 And much more...Watch the video here:
#spiders #millipedes #centipedes #webinar #WiNoDa #arachnids #insects #museumcollections
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A new video just crawled into our channel!
Jason Dunlop, curator of the 🕷️ arachnid & 🐛 myriapod collections at Museum für Naturkunde Berlin talks about...
🔸 Challenges in digitizing old collections.
🔸 Consistent naming of geographic locations.
🔸 And much more...Watch the video here:
#spiders #millipedes #centipedes #webinar #WiNoDa #arachnids #insects #museumcollections
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Minna Takala: New Archetype for Museums. “The most obvious new aspect of the Storehouse is that it is totally transparent, exposing the collection of 250,000 objects to public viewing. The building is literally a warehouse (like Amazon) where you can walk inside the corridors like in an IKEA store to see the objects placed on shelves.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/21/minna-takala-new-archetype-for-museums/
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 "𝗔𝗜 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲" 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝘂𝘁!
Have a look to discover the 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 when applied to collections 🦋
#WiNoDa #naturalscience #collections #museumcollections #museum
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📹 Part 3 of our playlist 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘮 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘴 is online!
𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭:
-> Object-recognition with AI on the example of insects.
-> Use cases of Segment Anything and Grounding DINO#WiNoDa #naturalscience #collections #museumcollections #museum #objectrecognition
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🎥 Part 2 of our playlist 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘮 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘴 is online!
𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭:
-> semi-automated label-transciptions
-> error-rates#WiNoDa #naturalscience #collections #museumcollections #museum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu7WcnuWrw8
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📽️ The video of the 𝐊𝐢𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤 is now online!
If you missed the webinar, you now have the chance to watch it anytime and learn how the Kiebids framework could be useful in your work.
Watch the first video right now and stay tuned for the whole playlist on 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘮 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘴.
#WiNoDa #naturalscience #collections #museumcollections #museum
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Chicago Sun-Times: Griffin MSI lets online visitors experience 1893 World’s Fair — and more . “The free searchable database will feature 7,000 pieces from the museum’s 35,000-item collection. Images that are being uploaded encompass far more than pieces from the 1893 World’s Fair.”
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A good source of information about collections management issues is the Museum Collections Care listserv, the successor group to the CS-AAM and RC-AAM listservs: https://groups.google.com/g/museum-collections-care #museums #collections #googlegroups #museumcollections
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Estonian Research Council: Researcher explores visual media through the lens of machine vision. “In his doctoral thesis, Tallinn University School of Digital Technologies student Tillmann Ohm proposes a new way to explore large visual collections: through the lens of machine vision, focusing not on what an image is but on what it resembles. Instead of sorting images into fixed categories, the […]
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Getty: Getty Adds Deaccessioned Objects to Online Collection Pages. “The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today that it has added information to its online collection pages about objects that have been deaccessioned (removed) from Getty’s collection. This long-term project offers a comprehensive, searchable tool for anyone interested in this aspect of Getty’s collection history.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/06/getty-getty-adds-deaccessioned-objects-to-online-collection-pages/
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The weakening case against museum restitution | The case for the return of the Benin bronzes seems to be unraveling https://archive.ph/AS2M8 #museums #museumcollections #restitution #repatriation
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The Conversation: Museums have tons of data, and AI could make it more accessible − but standardizing and organizing it across fields won’t be easy. “AI tools can do amazing things, such as make 3D models of digitized versions of the items in museum collections, but only if there’s enough well-organized data about that item available. To see how AI can help museum collections, my team […]
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Yale News: Breaking digital siloes to share cultural heritage collections. “In 2023, Yale launched LUX: Yale Collections Discovery, a groundbreaking research platform that allows people to search across the university’s vast museum, library, and archival collections from their laptops. Now the data framework behind LUX has been made available to any cultural heritage institution worldwide […]
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Interview with the magazine of Galerie Viewer by Wouter van den Eijkel about my solo exhibition “Exploring the Fields” at Galerie Fontana.
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Tomorrow 25th January is the last day that you can see the photo exhibition bij Jacquie Maria Wessels at Galerie Fontana in Amsterdam. www.galeriefontana.com
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#analoguephotography #artgallery #photoexhibition #artcollection #jacquiemariawessels #filmphotography #amsterdam #museumcollections #hasselblad #photography -
Heise Online: Object database: Online visit to the German Historical Museum. “Sound recordings over 100 years old, a Luther Bible from the 16th century or a call for a climate strike: the German Historical Museum (DHM) in Berlin has revised and expanded its object database. Many exhibits can be viewed online. The DHM’s collection comprises around one million objects. Around 780,000 of these […]
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University of Glasgow: Largest survey of its kind charts immersive digital future for museums worldwide. “Conducted as part of the Museums in the Metaverse (MiM) £5.6 million project, based at the University of Glasgow’s Advanced Research Centre, this study is the largest of its kind, gathering insights from over 2000 participants worldwide. The research provides crucial evidence for how […]
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British Library: AI (and machine learning, etc) with British Library collections. “Machine learning (ML) is a hot topic, especially when it’s hyped as ‘AI’. How might libraries use machine learning / AI to enrich collections, making them more findable and usable in computational research? Digital Curator Mia Ridge lists some examples of external collaborations, internal experiments and […]
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Managing Collection Environments Initiative
Risk Management and HERIe (https://herie.pl/) Tools Experts Meeting
The Managing Collection Environments Initiative hosted a two-day workshop attended by 20 colleagues
https://www.getty.edu/projects/managing-collection-environments-initiative/?utm_source=GlobalMuseum #museums #museumcollections #Getty -
+ certainly did the military aspect, training the generations of soldiers who would be on the front line of expanding and maintaining the Empire.
Given that Norwich was also a centre of the UK printing industry, there's definitely connections with typographic standards, newspapers and thus the spread of information (incl. that of anti-colonial writings), but this is another aspect of the hyperlocal connection that's been highlighted.
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+ certainly did the military aspect, training the generations of soldiers who would be on the front line of expanding and maintaining the Empire.
Given that Norwich was also a centre of the UK printing industry, there's definitely connections with typographic standards, newspapers and thus the spread of information (incl. that of anti-colonial writings), but this is another aspect of the hyperlocal connection that's been highlighted.
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+ certainly did the military aspect, training the generations of soldiers who would be on the front line of expanding and maintaining the Empire.
Given that Norwich was also a centre of the UK printing industry, there's definitely connections with typographic standards, newspapers and thus the spread of information (incl. that of anti-colonial writings), but this is another aspect of the hyperlocal connection that's been highlighted.
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+ certainly did the military aspect, training the generations of soldiers who would be on the front line of expanding and maintaining the Empire.
Given that Norwich was also a centre of the UK printing industry, there's definitely connections with typographic standards, newspapers and thus the spread of information (incl. that of anti-colonial writings), but this is another aspect of the hyperlocal connection that's been highlighted.
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+ certainly did the military aspect, training the generations of soldiers who would be on the front line of expanding and maintaining the Empire.
Given that Norwich was also a centre of the UK printing industry, there's definitely connections with typographic standards, newspapers and thus the spread of information (incl. that of anti-colonial writings), but this is another aspect of the hyperlocal connection that's been highlighted.
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Exploring the Museum Data Service and it's really fascinating how already just a quick search is speaking to a theory of mine about the way that regional contributions to the British Empire are a key part of the story that should never be downplayed.
Just a search for 'Nigeria' in 'Norfolk Museums': https://museumdata.uk/object-search/?collection%5B%5D=Norfolk+Museums&q=nigeria&i=1&view=20
and there's such an insight into the way that e.g. Norfolk (like Warwickshire) might not have contributed to the industrial aspect, but +
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Johann Hauser, Untitled (“Stars”), no date, etching and graphite, 9.8 × 14.9 cm ★ Slovakia/Austria ★ https://philamuseum.org/search/collections?filters=%7B%22artist%22%3A%5B%22Johann%20Hauser%22%5D%7D #JohannHauser #artbrut #outsiderart #etching #stars #drawings #graphics #decor #characters #mooninart #museumcollections #PhilaMuseum #HouseofArtists #outsiderartists #peoplea #neurodivergentartists #Slovakartists #undatedartworks @philamuseum
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Mechanical Insights: Shaping the Future of Museum Collection Preservation Symposium
November 12–15, 2024
Getty Center, Los AngelesCall for abstracts now open
Registration opens June 3, 2024This symposium brings together an international group of experts in the mechanical characterization of historic and artists’ materials to discuss current and future trends in the study and preservation of museum collections.
https://event.fourwaves.com/mechanicssymp/pages #MuseumCollections #museums #Getty
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Nicole High-Steskal and Rainer Simon outline the #LiviaAI project, aiming to connect Vienna's museum collections through AI. Collaborating with institutions like the Belvedere, Wien Museum, and MAK, the project explores cross-collection linking and analysis. The prototype application showcases how AI can reveal patterns and associations, enhancing digital engagement with Vienna's cultural heritage. #AIinArt #MuseumCollections #ViennaArt
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@lukasfx delves into the intersection of AI and museum collections, challenging the notion of tech-solutionism in addressing social issues. He emphasizes the need for critical engagement, using AI to explore collections as archives of social relations. Fuchsgruber advocates for making data, documentation, and archives publicly available, turning museum collections into spaces for critical research and collaboration with social studies. #AI #MuseumCollections #CriticalEngagement
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An even more horrific sequel to yesterday's post.
"In what amounted to industrial-scale pillaging, he and a small team disinterred the remains of about 1,000 people and shipped them back to the " Smithsonian. AND Hrdlicka "preyed on Indigenous populations, willing to go to extreme, sometimes brutal, lengths to acquire remains. "#racism
#repatriation
#museumcollections #stolenbodies #returntheremains #Smithsonian
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2023/ales-hrdlicka-smithsonian-brains-racism?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most -
Applications are now open for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the field of the #HistoryOfScience within the project #TRANSMAT – Transnational Materialities.
The fellowship will last for six months, with the possibility of renewal until the end of the project.
Deadline: 30 June 2023.
#histodons #SciHist #HistoryJobs #MuseumCollections #Materialities #HistoryFellowships
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Now an English version of our recent web publication with our students, titled "Images of the World", is available:
How were images of the world and ideas of foreignness and otherness negotiated and constituted in nineteenth-century art?
https://museumsandsociety.net/en/research/digital-image-worlds/weltbilder
#museumcollections #paintings #annotation #openscience #sciencecommunication #teaching #publishing #studentpublishing #webpublishing #digitalarthistory #decolonize
#AlexandervonHumboldt
#AiméBonpland
#FerdinandKonradBellermann
#FriedrichGeorgWeitsch
#CarlBlechen
#FriedrichAugustStüler
#PaulMeyerheim
#WilhelmKuhnert
#RadenSaleh
#AmritaSherGil
#Palmenhaus
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A new look at decades of data from #MuseumCollections & #surveys of #LeafLitter #ants in #Florida #reveals a steady #decline in #NativeAnts , #simultaneous #increase in #nonNative ants—even in #protected natural areas of the state, researchers report.
#Reported in the journal Current #Biology , the findings point to a potential future devoid of native ants, the #researchers said.#entomology #insects #biodiversity #AtRisk #ecology #environment
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Amanhã, 23 de Março, a Catarina Teixeira vai dar uma aula aberta, na Universidade de Évora, sobre a conservação de colecções anatómicas, tendo como caso de estudo o Museu de Anatomia da Escola Médico-Cirúrgica de Lisboa.
ENTRADA LIVRE#histodons #AnatomicalCollections #SciHistory #HistoryOfMedicine #MuseumCollections #OpenClass
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Amanhã, 23 de Março, a Catarina Teixeira vai dar uma aula aberta, na Universidade de Évora, sobre a conservação de colecções anatómicas, tendo como caso de estudo o Museu de Anatomia da Escola Médico-Cirúrgica de Lisboa.
ENTRADA LIVRE#histodons #AnatomicalCollections #SciHistory #HistoryOfMedicine #MuseumCollections #OpenClass
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Amanhã, 23 de Março, a Catarina Teixeira vai dar uma aula aberta, na Universidade de Évora, sobre a conservação de colecções anatómicas, tendo como caso de estudo o Museu de Anatomia da Escola Médico-Cirúrgica de Lisboa.
ENTRADA LIVRE#histodons #AnatomicalCollections #SciHistory #HistoryOfMedicine #MuseumCollections #OpenClass
