acuriosityofmine: Natural History Exhibits in Seitenstetten Abbey
Alice Pattullo “Shell Museum”
Japanese tea utensils at the Museum of Anthropolgy, UBC, Vancouver.
Lace artefacts at the Museum of Anthropology, UBC, Vancouver.
marsiouxpial: In 1864 the Swedish photographer Emma Schenson made a series of photographs in memory of the Swedish botanist Carl von Linné (1707-1778), who was known as Linnaeus. Most photographs in the series are taken in his house (now a museum) in Hammarby near Uppsala, Sweden. Linnaeus furnished his home as a kind of personal museum. Almost every detail of the arrangement has a close relationship to his work. In the bedroom the walls were papered with proof copies of drawings by Charles Plumier (French botanist, 1646-1704) and Georg Ehret (botanical artist,1707-1770). The curtain on the bed is printed with a decoration based on his favourite flower, the Linnaea borealis. There are other photographs by Schenson of Linnaeus’ house in the V&A (see 72:384 and 72:387).
Some friends and I are planning a picnic tomorrow at Harewood House - please wish us luck with the weather (you know how England can be…)!
bookshelfporn: Ghibli Museum, Japan
Leila Cohoon, founder of Leila’s Hair Museum in Independence, Mo., photo by Richard Gwin. I want to go there- I love museums so much, and small kind off crazy ones like this are just amazing! There is a man somewhere in the UK who turned his house and garden into a museum of his life, but I can’t seem to find him online- does anyone else know who/what I mean and where I can find him/it?
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