The Guardian
Iraq war 10 years on: the museum's story
Iraq war 10 years on: the museum's story Subscribe to the Guardian HERE: http://bitly.com/UvkFpD This film looks at the National Museum of Iraq, which suffered pillaging, theft and damage in 2003. Nine years on, the museum remains closed...
The Atlantic
Why America Needs a Slavery Museum
The Whitney Plantation near Wallace, Louisiana, is the first and only U.S. museum and memorial to slavery. While other museums may include slavery in their exhibits, the Whitney Plantation is the first of its kind to focus primarily on...
Curated Video
Fossil Fish, Pt. II: A History
Join us for Part II in our quest to uncover the tropical world of ancient Fossil Lake! Palm trees in Wyoming! Sex in the fossil record! Check out "Lost World of Fossil Lake: Snapshots from Deep Time," by Lance Grande bit.ly/1p79CXv Gems...
Curated Video
Prince's Iconic Guitar 🎸 This Object in History | Smithsonian Channel
There's never been another performer like Prince, and the same can be said of his iconic yellow cloud guitar, donated to Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in 1993. In this episode of This Object in History, we partner...
Learn German with Herr Antrim
Mercedes Museum Stuttgart - Edwardsville-Calw GAPP 2018
One of the best museums I have been to in a while. I was amazed not only to see so many fantastic cars, but also to see the bits of history surrounding them. If you go to Stuttgart, this museum is definitely worth your time. Download...
The Guardian
Behind the scenes at London's Cinema Museum
Ronald Grant film archivist, projectionist and founder of the Cinema Museum in Kennington, London takes Michele Hanson on a tour of movie history through the museum's extraordinary collection and tells her about the campaign to buy the...
The March of Time
Pilgrim Hall Museum statues models
MOT 1941: 'PILGRIM HALL' MUSEUM: INT MS Framed documents on wall 'Shipping paper.' INT MS Model of 'U.S. Constitution' boat museum. MS People looking at bible exhibit. MS Ancient bible on display. LA MS American Revolution statue....
Natural History Museum
It's Time for Nature | Live talk with David de Rothschild
This World Environment Day (Friday 5 June), join our panel of global scientific experts LIVE from 18.00 BST as they discuss the importance of protecting biodiversity - the variety and volume of life on Earth - as we face a planetary...
Natural History Museum
Behind the scenes at the WPY Academy | Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Watch what happened when this year’s young Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition winners visited the WPY Academy at the Natural History Museum in London; a prize for all awarded young photographers that features a full day of...
The Met
#MetKids—Were There Superheroes in the Ancient World?
It might surprise you to learn that superheroes existed long before there were comic books and movies! Join Kellie, age 11, as she learns all about the supernatural protectors of the ancient world. Credits #MetKids is a digital feature...
Gresham College
The History of the Bowler Hat - Timothy Long
At times the Bowler hat has been ubiquitous, but how did the invention of two milliner brothers come to be so closely associated with British identity?: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-history-of-the-bowler-hat An icon...
Smarthistory
Four Buddhas at the American Museum of Natural History
A conversation at the American Museum of Natural History between Dr. Laurel Kendall, Curator, Asian Ethnographic Collections and Dr. Monique Scott, Assistant Director of Cultural Education in front of four Buddhist sculptures: Seated...
Curated Video
Hong Kong Museum of History | Easy Cantonese 8
Hong Kong Museum of History | Easy Cantonese 8 Easy Languages is an international video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews and expose the street culture of participating...
The March of Time
1953: NEW YORK CITY: AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: ROSE CENTER FOR EARTH & SPACE: HA TD WS People walking into Planetarium, Central Park West at 81st Street, TU Hayden Planetarium lettering on brick above windows. Note: Black, white flecks
MOT 1953: NEW YORK CITY: AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: ROSE CENTER FOR EARTH & SPACE: HA TD WS People walking into Planetarium, Central Park West at 81st Street, TU Hayden Planetarium lettering on brick above windows. Note: Black,...
The March of Time
1938: VISUAL HISTORY: Framed Coast Guard, Navy paintings on walls. People in room looking at models of boats in glass cases, possibly Maritime Museum. Steamboat w/ paddle wheel & Steam ship in cases.
MOT 1938: VISUAL HISTORY: Framed Coast Guard, Navy paintings on walls. People in room looking at models of boats in glass cases, possibly Maritime Museum. Steamboat w/ paddle wheel & Steam ship in cases.
The March of Time
1946: NEW YORK CITY: * Curator Gordon Atwater (Chairman of Astronomy Department American Museum of Natural History) standing in planitarium theater before audience SOT explaining difference between astronomy & occult astrology. VS Audience, dark room.
MOT 1946: NEW YORK CITY: * Curator Gordon Atwater (Chairman of Astronomy Department American Museum of Natural History) standing in planitarium theater before audience SOT explaining difference between astronomy & occult astrology. VS...
NativLang
Why Some Ancient Texts Will NEVER Be Read - Decipherment Club #2
Will some ancient messages never be read, no matter how hard we try? Now that you understand the Decipherment Club’s rules about HOW to decipher, ask yourself WHAT to decipher. Which scripts are decipherable? Which texts must you...
English Heritage
Rotten Romans Quiz with Rattus Rattus | Horrible Histories: The Movie
How well do you know your Roman history? To celebrate the cinematic release of Horrible Histories: The Movie on July 26, we asked our good friend Rattus Rattus to test your knowledge of the Rotten Romans! Want to find out more about...
The Met
Overlapping Decagons on the Iranian Plateau: History of Architecture and the History of Mathematics
Carol Bier Research Associate , The Textile Museum Dan Shechtman received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2011) for discovery of a crystalline structure in which five- and ten-fold symmetries are present in a way that is "forbidden"...
Curated Video
This 19th Century Dresden Museum Received a Careful Makeover 🤩How Did They Build That? | Smithsonian
In 2001, Daniel Libeskind was hired to design a tasteful extension to the Bundeswehr Museum of Military History, in Dresden. His vision was an ingenious feat of architecture that managed to be both modern and respectful of the city’s...
The Guardian
Stephen Hawking: The Science Museum Live Stream
Subscribe to The Guardian: http://bitly.com/UvkFpD Stephen Hawking speaks live at The Science Museum in London. In 2013, Professor Stephen Hawking was awarded the prestigious Fundamental Physics Prize "for his discovery of Hawking...
Curated Video
🔴Live at the Museum: Stepping Through Deep Time
Join host Kallie Moore from PBS Eons and paleontologist Adam Pritchard for an up-close look at unique fossils, including the Nation’s T-Rex, in the newly renovated David H. Koch Hall of Fossils at Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural...
The Met
#MetKids—Animation Inspired by Ballplayers from the Ancient Americas
Two sculptures of ballplayers that are over 1,700 years old inspired #MetKids animators. The sculptures were made in Jalisco, in western Mexico. Kids imagined them playing the ballgame, in which players use their hips to hit a large...
Curated Video
T. rex Arms & BEARDOGS! | Natural News from The Field Museum | Ep. 6
We’ve got three big stories talking about tiny things! Tiny arms, tiny plants, tiny beardog fossils. Big science. Want more natural history research? Check out the other episodes of NN! http://bit.ly/2fFSzOg ↓ More info + Links! ↓...