Showing posts with label collections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label collections. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

The Public Domain Review

The Public Domain Review, a project of the Open Knowledge Foundation, is a fascinating resource!


Moose, "from the Austrian painter Aloys Zötl’s Bestiarium, a series of exquisite paintings of various animals undertaken from 1831 through until his death in 1887. He was relatively unknown until, decades after his death, his work was 're-discovered' by surrealist André Breton..."

The Public Domain Review publishes articles which focus on works old enough to have entered the pubic domain and which are available online in openly-licensed digitised form. In general, we encourage contributions which highlight material at the more unorthodox end of the cultural spectrum – curiosities, obscure theories, strange inventions, and so on. If on a well-known figure then we tend to favour an unusual angle or a focus on lesser known works. As well as pieces which focus on particular works, we also welcome articles with a broader historical focus, though they should be closely aligned with interesting material to which we can link.
Recent articles include: Still Booking on De Quincy's Mail-Coach, and The Forgotten Tales of the Brothers Grimm.  The review also "collects" public domain images, film, audio, and text, providing links to other resources as well.




Friday, August 31, 2012

Temperantia | ARTtube

Temperantia | ARTtube

One of many awesome videos on this multi-media site from the Netherlands!  

It features the Print Room at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.

Monday, October 31, 2011

Creusot-Monceau Ecomuseum

Model of a steam engine by William Murdock, 1784
I ran across a really interesting museum collection focusing on industrial machinery in the nineteenth and early twentieth century in France.


They have a gigantic model built over twenty years starting in the 1890s that includes 38 automatons and replicates industrial activities throughout the whole plant in Franche-Comte.

Francois Bonhomme (1864): Forge in Creusot
You can  read a bit about the idea behind this community museum in this article in MuseumCommunities.