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Cooper Hewitt's new exhibition "Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics" highlights the creative history of designing for healing and prevention. ![]()
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The exhibition illustrates, for instance, "how fighting disease with masks and protective clothing is not a new phenomenon but an ancient practice."![]()
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Cooper Hewitt’s new Design and Healing exhibition showcases creative responses to COVID-19
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Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics, is an exhibition examining design’s role in times of crisis and opens today in the Design Process Galleries...
One year ago, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History collected artifacts, like signs and a flak jacket, from the January 6 insurrection. These objects are helping curators and others better understand what happened that day. ![]()
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Jan. 6 artifacts collected at American History Museum point to organization, planning and violence
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Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has a collection of artifacts from the Jan.6 Capitol riot.
As the Museum Studies program at the University of Delaware looks back on the past year, we're remembering all the great work our students have done!![]()
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Today we're featuring the work of Mary Rose Fay, a Summer 2021 Stewart Intern who developed a website/digital exhibit to help make the Jewish Historical Society of Delaware's Oral History collection more accessible. Check it out!![]()
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Oral History Collection | Jewish Historical Society of Delaware
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This exhibit has been curated, researched, written by Mary Rose Fay as her internship project for Summer 2021. Ms. Fay is the recipient of an E. Lyman Stewart Internship. These competitive paid opport...
We hope all of our followers in cold parts of the world are staying warm! ![]()
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London's Natural History Museum was kind enough to supply their T. Rex with a festive sweater to keep warm this winter. (It apparently took 100 hours to create!)![]()
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T.rex gets Christmas jumper at Natural History Museum in London
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A knitwear firm creates the huge sweater for the dinosaur at London's Natural History Museum.
Animals in the museum?![]()
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The cats in St. Petersburg's Hermitage Museum have always been part of the Winter Palace. ![]()
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They're not allowed in the galleries nowadays, but they still have a role to play! "To this day, the palace cats faithfully carry out their mice-catching duties -- even the eldest cat, at 22 years old."![]()
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The real life 'Aristocats' of St. Petersburg's Hermitage Museum
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Walk in the footsteps of Russian tsars at one of the world's largest museums, where cats prowl the premises by royal decree, doing a job of their own dating back hundreds of years.