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Exhibition “What Does Space Have to Do with It” opens at the Museum of Cryptography on 4 October
Only yesterday, space seemed inaccessible, frightening and far away. Today, everything is different. Every day, without a second thought, we use space technologies: when we talk to friends and family by satellite link, check the weather forecast or consult a satnav. Trainers, smartphones, memory-foam pillows, crisp packets and many
Art · Museums · Science · Paris · People
Edelfelt's portrait of Louis Pasteur, the rabies vaccine and pasteurisation
As Louis Pasteur said, a Sunday spent in the laboratory: could a Sunday be better spent? In this portrait of the laboratory by the Finnish artist Albert Edelfelt (1885), from the collection of the Musée d'Orsay, Louis Pasteur holds a flask containing the spinal cord of a rabbit
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Horseman, Dora Maar, 1936
She is best known as Picasso's muse and lover, which, alas, often leaves her own work overlooked. Yet what Maar did as a photographer and as a Surrealist artist occupies a place entirely apart. Indeed, once you have seen her works, you will always recognise her hand in
NB! · Monarchies · Moscow · Museums · Paris
Napoleon's sword, necklace and bicorne at the Army Museum in Paris, his sabre at the State Historical Museum in Moscow
Napoleon's sword and coronation necklace, together with the bicorne he wore at the Battle of Marengo, are in the Army Museum in Paris. I would remind you that in Moscow, the State Historical Museum displays Napoleon's sabre
Monarchies · Museums · Observations
Napoleon's Cot, Hat, Writing Desk and Dressing Gown from Saint Helena
Note the dimensions: truly very piccolo
NB! · Art · Maps · Books · Moscow · Museums
Engravings after Tilesius von Tilenau in the Atlas to Krusenstern's Voyage Around the World, 1813
Engravings after drawings by Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau. From the “Atlas for the Voyage Round the World of Captain Krusenstern”, 1813. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
NB! · Art · Moscow · Museums · People
Georgy Kostaki on Felix Vishnevsky, Founder of the Tropinin Museum, and the Moscow Artists of His Time
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A Freemason, a Meissen Porcelain Figure
NB! · Art · Books · Moscow · Museums · Society Pages
MAMM continues to delight with remarkable discoveries: today the Multimedia Art Museum opens Pavel Pepperstein's exhibition "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass", with illustrations for the books published in 2020 and 2024
Museums · Mores · Education
Canadian museum posts photo of school desk with names Benny and Linda, together for 50 years
It Doesn't Get More Romantic. A small town museum in Canada has posted a photograph of the names Benny and Linda, carved into a school desk. The author of the inscription replied in the comments and told the story of his love. Benny fell in love with Linda
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