Hello twitterverse!

Happy everyone!! Visiting museums is my favorite activity when I travel, I miss it so much!

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It's While our galleries are closed, fancy taking an audio tour through some of the key artworks in Tate Britain? Start here: https://t.co/cox0sNCi6t

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Dutch pharmacist Albertus Seba (1665–1736) devoted his life to collecting exotic plants and animals. His richly illustrated books document his cabinet of curiosities—a precursor of the modern museum. Explore his publications for https://t.co/zv3F9QVGrE

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JOURNEY TO ITALY / Viaggio in Italia – Roberto Rossellini, 1954
w/ Ingrid Bergman
“Duo” – Colette, 1934
Sculpture: “The Runners”

Katherine visits the National Archaeological Something about what she sees there disturbs her…

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Celebramos el recordando las ilustraciones del y el realizadas por para nuestros números de enero 2020 y octubre 2019.

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On 2020 let's be grateful we can visit so many of them virtually (this 1800 print from BM online collection) & remember that the first Mousaion was wherever the Muses were to be found cultivating the life of the mind-Helicon, Parnassus, Alexandria, your kitchen...

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apparently. (yes, it's a gallery but regardless:) was delighted to spend a day at the in Feb... Hope to go again, a month of exploration would not be enough...

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Went back to the for Couldn’t just visit the Alphonse Mucha exhibit once 💕

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Did you know stuffed giraffes used to greet visitors to the Museum?🦒

Natural history specimens were a large part of the Museum’s early collection. This 1845 image by George Scharf shows the staircase in Montagu House, the Museum’s former home

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Pinguinus impennis, great auk. Plate 46 from John Gould's The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873) hand coloured lithograph. View the book for free via https://t.co/y8qLypIQRv

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It is also and The Gardens is a living museum that houses a massive plant, art and rare book collections. Our School of Botanical Art and Illustration is world renown for its impressive curriculum.

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Pinguinus impennis, great auk. Plate 341 from John James Audubon's Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (and Son), London.

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Bones of the extinct Great Auk in the Natural History Museum found on Funk Island about 37 miles off Newfoundland, Canada. Sold to Walter Rothschild in August 1896 - approx 50 years after their extinction after centuries of persecution by man

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It's so here's a quick sketch I did of one of my favourite pieces of art. Woman With a Purse (1974), sculpture by American Artist Duane Hanson. Can be found in the excellent in Cologne, Germany.

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