The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel reaches its Bicentennial!

Today marks the 200th anniversary of the oldest natural history museum in the US!

The Philly Inquirer has a pretty good article on it.

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Posted on March 21, 2012

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt (via nazeefafatima)

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modern art museum, stockholm

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The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History (by evantravers)

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(via Overzealous cleaner ruins £690,000 artwork that she thought was dirty | Art and design | The Guardian)

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Leo Caillard art game editorial

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museumnerd:

Allen Memorial Art Museum (Oberlin) + American Museum of Natural History + Art Gallery of Ontario + Brooklyn Museum + Carleton University Art Gallery + Charleston Museum + MASS MoCA + Metropolitan Museum of Art (Get Closer) + National Archives (Today’s…

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strachan:

Peter Zumthor - Kolumba Museum - Koln, Germany.

As much as I’ve lusted over this building, there were a few wee flaws:

1 - Picture rails were absent, so pictures had to be screwed directly into the finished plaster walls leaving unsightly marks when they were removed;

2 - That’s pretty much it. Every type of room or gallery you could wish for was included: tall, small, dark, light, narrow, long, secluded, wide open and BEST OF ALL - this building actually took you on a journey. From the entrance to the top-most tall gallery space the building leads you uncompromisingly through all the galleries in an amazingly simple, yet most likely unrealised, route up and through the building.

This is undoubtedly a must see building.

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Gucci Opens Museum in Florence

Gucci sealed its 90th anniversary this year with the unveiling Monday of the Gucci Museo in the heart of Florence, the famed Piazza della Signoria.

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