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Science Museum in London opens medicine gallery featuring Eleanor Crook's sculpture “Holy Medicine”
The Science Museum in London delighted visitors barely a week ago by opening a new gallery devoted to medicine. The exhibition is enlivened by a remarkable work of art, a bridge between historical eras and the present day: the bronze sculpture "Saint Medicine" by the English artist Eleanor
Museums · Mores · People · Humour
Edward Bright's jacket, which held seven people, is the main exhibit of his museum
The jacket of the famous fat man Edward Bright, which could accommodate seven people: the star exhibit of the museum of this rosy-cheeked provincial giant of the eighteenth century, who lived to be only 29. A rather restrained and modern style, it must be said. An idea for an
NB! · Archaeology · Art · Monarchies · Museums · People
Head from a statue of Emperor Vespasian found at the forum of Hippo in Algeria
A rather grim portrait of the birthday boy: the head of Emperor Vespasian, born on 17 November AD 9 and died in AD 79. This fragment of a statue of Vespasian was found in the forum of Hippo in Algeria and set into the wall of its museum. Not the
Archaeology · Museums · Mores
Roman slave shackles in museums in Spain and England and the question of constant wear
Roman slave shackles from the museums of Seville in Spain and Norwich in Norfolk, England. Finds of this kind are characteristic of the vast territories of the Western Roman Empire. The abundance and character of the finds may also suggest that some of the slaves in the countryside wore shackles
NB! · London · Museums · Science · Mores
Glass moulds for rubber or latex condoms of various sizes, 1900s-1920s, Science Museum (London)
Art · Museums · Humour
Your face when Mum asks you to talk on the phone to a distant relative
Giovanni Bellini's Pietà, 1465-1470, presented to the Pinacoteca di Brera in 1811 by Napoleon's stepson Eugène de Beauharnais, who had taken the panel from the rich Sampieri collection
Museums · Heritage · Nature · Reportage
An inspection of the trees has confirmed the hypothesis of colleagues from the Pushkin museums that the park at Khmelita may well be a Masonic one
An inspection of the trees has confirmed the hypothesis of colleagues from the Pushkin museums that the park at Khmelita may well be a Masonic one. Every tree and its position means something, though these details will be worked out later; it would be very interesting to see the final
Museums · Heritage · Nature · Reportage
Arborist Aleksey Tikhomirov surveyed the memorial park of the Khmelita estate
A manor park is a very complex organism, which needs not only care but sometimes a proper medical examination and treatment. Over the weekend a most interesting museum event took place: in my beloved Khmelita the park was given a check-up. It should be said that the park of
NB! · Museums · Observations · Humour
I feel like the cat of the National Archaeological Museum in Naples and cannot help it
Art · Moscow · Museums · Humour
A subscriber at the Tretyakov Gallery tells a charming story
A visitor standing before "Lenin in Smolny" asked whether it was true that Brodsky had given the bald head an extra glow so that it would look like a halo. The guide replied that no, of course not: the bald head simply had to be set off from
NB! · Moscow · Museums · Observations
Visitors to the New Tretyakov Gallery are invited to the fourth floor
How can one not love the New Tretyakov Gallery? Do look in on the 4th floor