Small Museums Canada

Offering services & products to help Canada's small museums & archives.

[Small Museums Canada @smallmuseumsca]

From gophers to coal to eerie dolls: Check out these rural museums near Calgary!

https://t.co/YhAHGDZult #smallmuseums #ruralmuseums #alberta #canada

[Small Museums Canada @smallmuseumsca]

You might be surprised by the "Top 10 Myths about #HistoricPreservation" by Ken Bernstein, principal city planner and manager at Office of Historic Resources @Planning4LA.

https://t.co/JtzZD32XrW

[Small Museums Canada @smallmuseumsca]

"For millennia, people slept in two shifts – once in the evening, and once in the morning. But why? And how did the habit disappear?"

https://t.co/Y6KvwnYF9k #speeping #history #sleephistory

[Small Museums Canada @smallmuseumsca]

@GreatSmokyNPS @ClemsonUniv @CofC Leicester B. Holland Prize #3 (from 2013) shows the Turn-of-River lenticular bridge, built in 1893 in Stamford, CT.

Drawing by Morgen Fleisig.

https://t.co/XRyLlFcjPc

https://t.co/AqEpR9RiSk
#oldbridges #architecturaldrawing #measureddrawing #oldstamford #stamfordhistory

[Small Museums Canada @smallmuseumsca]

The annual Leicester B. Holland Prize goes to the best single-sheet measured drawing of an historic site, structure or landscape prepared to 🇺🇸Historic American Buildings Survey (#HABS) standards.

The first winner, from 2011, shows a #BuckyFuller dome.

https://t.co/mgR4VDUyIS

[Small Museums Canada @smallmuseumsca]

Leicester B. Holland Prize #2 (from 2012) shows the White Rock Lookout Tower at @GreatSmokyNPS, constructed 1937-39.

It was drawn by Laura Beth Ingle of @ClemsonUniv / @CofC.

#oldarchitecture #oldbuilding #30sarchitecture #architecturaldrawing #measureddrawing #historicparks

[Small Museums Canada @smallmuseumsca]

.@Harvard is now considering #denaming more of its buildings, programs & professorships.

The committe cautions that “neither hagiography nor raw condemnation is likely to encompass & explain the full complexity of a life a name may represent.”

https://t.co/WBIDilQPiX #Harvard

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🔎 Marvelous piece of sleuthing around this still life by Isabel Agnes Cowper, the @V_and_A's Official Museum Photographer from 1868 – 1891.

📖 READ >>
https://t.co/bf4hvWsPLR #museumeducation #museumphotography #womeninmuseums

[Christopher Knight @KnightLAT]

“When COVID-19 shut down museums in March 2020, the Met projected a likely $150 million revenue shortfall. That hefty figure has been repeated in the press ever since. Unreported before now, however, is the 33% spike in the Met’s endowments, [now] pegged at $4.4 billion.”

[Small Museums Canada @smallmuseumsca]

Thomas Jefferson @TJMonticello organized his books by subject on paper, and by size (in stacking book boxes) IRL.

📖 READ >> https://t.co/wIJkcAwcDu

📺 WATCH >>
https://t.co/cUuYXZQKTm
#bookhistory #hhmuseums #smallmuseums #libraryhist #bookboxes #bookpresses #bookcases

[Small Museums Canada @smallmuseumsca]

Future museums should be domestic scale, not monumental says Orhan Pamuk.

<< WE HAD:
Epics
Representation
Monuments
Histories
Nations
Groups and teams
Large and expensive

WE NEED
Novels
Expression
Homes
Stories
Persons
Individuals
Small and cheap >>

https://t.co/PDYKx7eKp3

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'The Value, Impact & Importance of Experimenting with Cultural Heritage Digital Collections'.

Wise & witty explanation of what worked & what didn't from @DEJPett:

https://t.co/XpPMYVXIix #GLAM #digitalmuseums #culturalheritage #digitalcollections #3Dscanning
HT @mrchristian99

[#VisionZero Canada @VisionZeroCA]

When a federal museum exhibition announcement reads like a car ad. 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

#motordom #yourtaxdollarsatwork #ohcanada

[Small Museums Canada @smallmuseumsca]

"In 1881 a group of high society women gathered in London to form a new organization. They named their group the Rational Dress Society, intending to reform Victorian women’s dress ..."

Full story >> https://t.co/cm3BmZCdVe #cycling #history #fashionhistory #women #rationaldress

[Small Museums Canada @smallmuseumsca]

Superb intro to the anatomy of hand-press books, via @rarebookschool.

https://t.co/VCAQskKl5u #rarebooks #printing #history

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"X is the Xit, Xtremely alluring
When the Cubies invite us to study their Art ..."

#modernart #modernism #antimodern #antimodernism #abstraction #cubism #futurism #ArmoryShow #satire

[Small Museums Canada @smallmuseumsca]

The Armory Show (NY, 1913) introduced Americans to the art of the European avant-garde (cubists futurist, &c.). This caused a stir among traditionalists, including Mary Mills and Earl Harvey Lyall, who satirized it with a spirited children's book.

https://t.co/mSwur1pOmb #cubies

[Small Museums Canada @smallmuseumsca]

Victorian artist Harrison Weir was crazy about cats.

Story via @collectorswkly >>
https://t.co/7MOzPasHGw #harrisonweir #cathistory #catfluencer #catsinart #cats #mentalhealth

[Small Museums Canada @smallmuseumsca]

Many great artifacts in this overview of Victorian attitudes toward people with disabilities.

https://t.co/wAtVBp6haN

[Small Museums Canada @smallmuseumsca]

What business is YOUR museum in?

📖 >> https://t.co/wvZG8pvRu8 #museums #hhmuseums #museumanarchism #communityengagement