The National Library of Ireland is offering a virtual tour of the exhibition “The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats” on the award-winning Yeats Exhibition homepage.
The notebook of one of Ireland’s most famous poets is one of thousands of objects in an exhibition titled “The Life and Works of William…
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This is the roundest object in the world;Made by The Australian Centre for Precision Optics (part of CSIRO) The balls are designed to assist scientists around the world to create the next, most accurate, standard of a kilogram.
For the first 100 or so years the kilogram was held in a French…
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Butyrka (Butyrskaya tyurma), a notorious czarist and Soviet-era prison near central Moscow that, according to some, could be turned into a museum in commemoration of the victims of Soviet-era repression.
The International Herald Tribune reports that former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has urged the creation of a national museum and memorial to…
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The Reichsbahnbunker Friedrichstrasse (State Railway Bunker) was built in 1942 to to offer protection against Allied air raids, and now houses a new private museum that has 3000 m2 of exhibition space.
Starting June 7, Christian Boros and his wife are making their collection of contemporary art available to the public in…
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A recent post on NYC Social alerted us to the Brooklyn Bridge’s upcoming 125th anniversary celebration (May 22nd-26th), featuring fireworks on the 22nd. Fireworks have to be one of my favorite NYC treats, from the 4th of July to the display over the beach at Coney Island on summer Friday…
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Today the co-discoverer of the double helix, James Watson, had his genome published in the journal Nature. His was the second genome published. The first cost billions. Watson’s genome cost just a few hundred thousand.
In a decade your personal genetic code will be available for a thousand dollars or so.…
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The keynote speaker of last week’s Museums and the Web in Montreal Michael Geist is looking back at the conference with a critical article in the Toronto Star. In short, Geist summons Canada’s museums to remove fees and contractual barriers to Canadian heritage.
«The dozens of presentations at the conference highlighted the…
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Day two of MW2008 began at 8 am this morning, with the ‘Birds of a Feather’ breakfast. Our self-created table ‘Enhanced Museum Events’ inspired an interesting dialogue with Jonathan Bowen, who is presenting Wiki Software and Facilities for Museums in the midday session. Before that, I visited talks about Web 2.0…
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