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Thinking about the wonderful botanical art collection . Not just artistic gems, but botanically accurate too!

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2020-06-25

In 1699, naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian sailed from Amsterdam to Suriname to study the life cycle of tropical insects: https://t.co/BFfM36jY9E. Here’s her watercolor of an Achilles morpho butterfly on a West Indian cherry via

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2020-06-25

In 1699, Maria Sibylla Merion sailed from Amsterdam to Suriname to study the life cycle of tropical insects. Here’s her watercolor of an Achilles morpho butterfly on a West Indian cherry from an exhibition at . theme today:

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2020-06-25

Two decidedly cheeky looking Mammoths. "The name derives from the Russian 'mammot', probably from Ostyak, a Finno-Ugric lang. of n. Russia (comp. Finnish maa "earth"). Because the remains were dug from the earth, the animal was believed to root like a mole."
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2020-06-25

Our William Hartley courtroom sketches cover a wide range of lawyers, judges, criminals and police officers, from Crippen and Le Neve to Superintendent John Michael Mulvaney (below), head of H () Division at the Sidney Street Siege.

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2020-06-25

Wash drawing of St Asaph Cathedral from the Flintshire Inventory of 1912. An evocative rendering by architect Mervyn Pritchard, one of the first surveyors at the Royal Commission.

https://t.co/y5hGbbrmjI

https://t.co/OJdDZJSzTL

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2020-06-25

Another winter scene: “Ballplay of the Dakota” by Seth Eastman, 1848 https://t.co/fmnaRdHrPz at . Lacrosse was invented by Native Americans, both men and women played, and games could last for days.

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2020-06-24

Oh, how much I was anticipating today’s theme: and 🤩

And may I, please, use this opportunity for a loud shoutout to , , - and their truly amazing and inspiring efforts in illustrating the past? 🙌

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2020-06-25

Day85
One of our members has links with the Arkleys who gave their fab collection to "offers fascinating glimpse at gender roles, as croquet one of the first games that men & women played together."
https://t.co/jdCLUysB8h

Digitised!

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2020-06-24

Today is about museums of the USA. Here are our 4 favourite objects from US Museum collections - The Goddess Victory (), A Roman Man in the time of Caracalla () Jupiter () & a rock crystal spoon ().

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2020-06-22

Lots of cartoons about flying and flight in PUNCH. Here's one of the most famous of 'The Combat' by Leslie Illingworth from the 1940 PUNCH Almanack.

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2020-06-21

The House of Leaves in Tirana in the former surveillance hdqtrs of the Hoxha regime helps us understand what constant state surveillance means to individual and to society.

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2020-06-20

More for day on Communism: just a few from the great collection of at the National Gallery of Art, Tirana, Albania

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2020-06-20

is about museums, sites and monuments related to '#Communism' today ... so I thought this might be a good opportunity to share some impressions of the here in east Treptower Park:

https://t.co/WxHJPyt1jf

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2020-06-20

Troswyd Theatr Coliseum godidog Aberystwyth, adeiladwyd ym 1904, yn sinema 1932. Caewyd 1977, anadlwyd bywyd newydd i'r adeilad gyda'i adfer a'i ailagor fel Amgueddfa Ceredigion ym 1982

https://t.co/Vdtr6c5eEc

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2020-06-18

The magnificent Coliseum Theatre Aberystwyth, built 1904, was converted to a cinema 1932. Closed 1977, new life was breathed into the building with its restoration and opening as Ceredigion Museum in 1982.

https://t.co/dq0dmYWB4X

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2020-06-18

Snap snap! 🦀
The terrestrial crab is clearly partial to an olive...
Hermit crab and soldier crabs; Coloured etching by J. Chapman, 12 July 1800.

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2020-06-17