How colonial violence in Tasmania helped build scientists’ reputations and prestigious museum collections: We might imagine that scientists gain recognition thanks to the ideas they generate and the knowledge they contribute to our understanding of the world, earned through careers of diligent research. But not everyone takes this route. When Tasmanian solicitor Morton Allport died …
A cool South African City image: Museum Collections Centre – 25 Dollman Street – warehouse – South African Railway Coach Model – sign – Metropolitan Cammell Image by ell brown I went to the Open Day at the Museum Collections Centre – 25 Dollman Street on the 13th of May 2012. At the Dollman Street …
Check out this South African City image: Museum Collections Centre – 25 Dollman Street – warehouse – South African Railway Coach Model – sign – Exhibition Models Image by ell brown I went to the Open Day at the Museum Collections Centre – 25 Dollman Street on the 13th of May 2012. At the Dollman …
Check out this South African City image: Museum Collections Centre – 25 Dollman Street – warehouse – South African Railway Coach Model – sign – plaque Image by ell brown I went to the Open Day at the Museum Collections Centre – 25 Dollman Street on the 13th of May 2012. At the Dollman Street …
Check out this South African City image: Museum Collections Centre – 25 Dollman Street – warehouse – South African Railway Coach Model – sign Image by ell brown I went to the Open Day at the Museum Collections Centre – 25 Dollman Street on the 13th of May 2012. At the Dollman Street Stores they …
A nice Paternoster image: British Library digitised image from page 212 of “The Victoria Nyanza: the land, the races and their customs, with specimens of some of the dialects … With a map, and 372 illustrations from native objects in the author’s own collections [Translated from Image by The British Library Image taken from: Title: …
A nice South African City image: Museum Collections Centre – 25 Dollman Street – warehouse – South African Railway Coach Model Image by ell brown I went to the Open Day at the Museum Collections Centre – 25 Dollman Street on the 13th of May 2012. At the Dollman Street Stores they have objects that …
Director of science at Kew: it’s time to decolonise botanical collections: Shutterstock/Toms Auzins I’ve often struggled to answer the simple question, “Where are you from?” As I was born and raised in Brazil, like many people my origin is mixed – comprising indigenous, African and Mediterranean ancestors – and I dislike pre-defined labels. Having lived …
Implementation of the Nagoya Protocol for Culture Collections Workshop Birmingham – a Culture interest event taking place on 2019-07-02 09:45:00 in United Kingdom The Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefits Sharing (ABS) supplements the Convention on Biological Diversity’s third objective on the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilisation of genetic resources. …
Storage of Ethnographic Collections Material: Challenges and Solutions – a Africa interest event taking place on 2018-01-25 09:30:00 in United Kingdom Outline of the Day The aim of this skills sharing day is to introduce participants to a selection of creative and effective solutions for the safe storage and handling of ethnographic collection material. Important: this …
Quest for Beauty: The Architecture, Landscapes, and Collections of John Yeon – a Beauty interest event taking place on 2017-05-13 00:00:00 in United States at Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Avenue Portland United States – Add your South African Event here. Have you tried: Farking?
Collections Encounter: Experimentations of the Counter-Culture – a Culture interest event taking place on 2017-02-15 14:00:00 in United Kingdom An artistic and social revolution happened in the 1960s, a backlash against the authority of mainstream 'square' culture. Experimentation in art and poetry exploded as artists began to rip-up rule books, during this collections encounter you …
South Africa in the news: Rhino horns hacked off for art collections, products: Rhino poaching in South Africa, which has the largest rhino population and biggest poaching problem, also rose during that time, though Gao cautioned that it’s not clear whether one trend drove the other. The sales, however, plummeted in 2012 …: “South Africa” …
Google Turns Image Search Into Pinterest With New “Collections” Feature – Yahoo News snippet curated by www.Free-Mail.co.za as being relevant to ‘Pinterest’. Watch out, Pinterest, you've got new competition. Google has now rolled out a new feature on its search engine that offers users an easy way to save to save images they find to …
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