Showing posts with label museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label museum. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Italian Instruments

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Photographs of beautiful instruments disfigured by ugly watermarks. Quite why, I don't know. Does the image have some sort of value tha...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Virtual Collection of Masterpieces

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Interesting objects and stories. [You have to install Microsoft Silverlight] Link…
Friday, March 13, 2009

Deer Scroll

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A 72ft (22m) long painting featuring 13th-century Japanese poetry. Very cool. Link… [flash]
Friday, July 04, 2008

Russian Exhibitions

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Architectural sketches of exhibition pavilions from 1775 to 1970. [previously] Link…
Thursday, May 15, 2008

Iraq 1961

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A guide book: The land between two rivers. Link…
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Treasures

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Objects from the National Museum of Japan (I think this is genuine, although I find it a little surprising that they would misspell 'Tre...
Thursday, February 28, 2008

Cryptography

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A large collection of vintage cryptography equipment and paraphernalia. Link…
Friday, November 02, 2007

Eugen Sandow

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Born Friedrich Wilhelm Mueller in Konigsberg, on April 25, 1867. His father was a greengrocer and his mother was a Russian emigrant. In his ...
Thursday, October 25, 2007

Hellenica

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All things Greek, including information about Aitna tetradrachm, the world's most valuable coin. Link…
Thursday, October 04, 2007

Cylinders and Discs

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Do you want to know what this sounds like? Then click here . A collection of old gramophones with video and sound files. Link…
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Royal Armoury

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The Swedish Royal Armoury is in a cellar vault beneath the Royal Palace in Stockholm. The armoury dates from the very beginning of the royal...