Showing posts with label online exhibitions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label online exhibitions. Show all posts

Sunday, September 10, 2006

Thursday, August 17, 2006

One life: Walt Whitman, a kosmos - new minisite from the Smithsonian.

Friday, August 04, 2006

The National Archives have made the Domesday Book available online. They've also provided some great accompanying material, including information on food and drink in the 'World of Domesday' feature.

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Finally caught the Americans in Paris exhibition at the National Gallery. Generally very impressive, though I was disappointed in the Mary Casatt paintings, having previously been very taken with her prints.

Sunday, February 19, 2006

What Women Want is the latest exhibition at the Women's Library. Exhibits are arranged to cover the areas of pleaseure, home life, work, security, independence and equality.

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Bestiary in Medieval Illumination is just one of the virtual exhibitions on the website of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Some of the pages have been translated into English.

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Turning the Pages at the Wellcome Trust includes the Wellcome Apocalypse (c.1420-30), Nujum al-'Ulum (Stars of Sciences) and On Cutaneous Diseases by Robert Willan (London, 1808).

Meanwhile, the National Library of Medicine's Turning the Pages Online includes Conrad Gesner’s Historiae Animalium (Studies on Animals), Ambroise ParĂ©’s Oeuvres, Andreas Vesalius's De Humani Corporis Fabrica and Johannes de Ketham's Fasiculo de Medicina

Monday, January 02, 2006

Monday, September 19, 2005

Looking around for pictures of Saint Paul, I came across this beautiful online edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle at the Morse Library, Beloit College.

Sunday, August 28, 2005

Online at the Ashmolean - pictures from an exhibition in 2003, in which monks created the Tibetan Sand Mandala of Chenrezi.

Saturday, May 14, 2005

August Strindberg: Painter, Photographer, Writer:

"Strindberg distrusted the glass lens of the camera: he felt that it distorted the truth. So he built his own pinhole camera, his Wunderkamera, which functioned without a lens." (Exhibition commentary).

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

My friend C took me to see the International Arts and Crafts Exhibition at the V&A today. It was so fabulous there are no words ... check out the minisite for yourself ... and maybe even design your own Arts and Crafts style tile.

Saturday, March 05, 2005

Skaro Toy Museum: a collection of images of Doctor Who toys, including the Giant Robot.

Monday, February 28, 2005