Online museum archives thread 🧵 for self isolation.
AMAZING MUSEUMS all around the world 🌍🌎🌏 have web resources you can access 24 hours for FREE: #archaeology, #history, & #museum Twitter, let's find and share as many as we can!
@MuseumofLondon
➡️ museumoflondon.org.uk/collections
Thanks to @northbird_ellen, we also know about the FREE, online website for all Norwegian university museums. It's UNBELIEVABLY GOOD. You'll need a wee bit of Norwegian, but Ellen has that covered! 🎩tip: @slewisimpson
SO. MUCH. AMBER.
➡️ unimus.no
Amis, ♥️ we now take you virtually from 🇳🇴 to 🇫🇷 and the wonderful #Roman #archaeology from the Chiragan villa, brought to you by the superb @MSR_Tlse. In French, but most browsers will have a translation option:
➡️ villachiragan.saintraymond.toulouse.fr
From 🇫🇷 to 🏴. DYK @natlibscotmaps has THE MOST ENDLESSLY FASCINATING free website that allows you to explore georeferenced historic maps of #Scotland? We're big fans of the side-by-side and overlay transparency options! 🗺
#history | #archaeology
➡️ maps.nls.uk/index.html
Like Scots-American #AmRev hero, Hugh Mercer, we move from 🏴 to the 🇺🇸 and the beautiful and user-friendly online portal for @PUArtMuseum.
We found this Peale 🎨🖌️ of Hugh and George Washington at Princeton:
➡️ artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/ob…
➡️ More on HM: lovearchaeology.wordpress.com/2016/12/14/hug…
Now to 🇬🇷 - the @BSAthens has a ridiculously attractive free website for its collections, so you can travel back in time to Knossos and the Byzantine world without leaving your house:
➡️ digital.bsa.ac.uk/index.php
We send our love to 🇮🇹 , where many of the most generous and kind people in the world live.
You can travel there virtually via the @the_bsr digital collections - their Piranesi archive is fantastic:
➡️ bsr.ac.uk/library/digita…
🎩tip @stephenjohnkay cc @pompei79 @DrPCRoberts
There are also FREE apps to make you 'appy (sorry), like this interactive, virtual tour from @VictoriaGallery, so you can visit this Victorian architectural gem without being in the wonderful city of #Liverpool:
➡️ liverpool.ac.uk/csd/app-direct…
WOW. You can explore (virtually) one of the greatest museums on earth: the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (@MANNapoli)! We are *genuinely* excited at discovering this.
#MuseumFromHome
#WashYourHands
#archaeology | #history
➡️ g.co/arts/C1ULFcg2V… (@googlearts)
We ♥️ @findsorguk and its brilliant (and easily searchable) FREE online archive. You'll get lost for hours!
➡️ finds.org.uk/database/search
It also has special sections, like @staffshoard papers!
➡️ finds.org.uk/staffshoardsym…
#MuseumFromHome | #archaeology | #history | #WashYourHands
OOH. You'll soon be able to #MuseumFromHome in 3D with the historic globes of the @britishlibrary, thanks to @BL_Digitisation! 🌎🌍🌏
#archaeology | #history | #MuseumsFromHome | #MuseumAtHome | #MuseumsAtHome
As always, remember to #WashYourHands
theguardian.com/books/2020/mar…
#Vikings. VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE ACTUAL *GOKSTAD SHIP*, courtesy of the wonderful @Kulturhistorisk.
Be #Viking: #WashYourHands
#MedievalTwitter | #archaeology | #history
my.matterport.com/show/?m=LCWEGG…
Crikey. Forget Sutton Hoo, this is *SUTTON OOH*!
@googlemaps Street View has mapped @britishmuseum's magical Room 41, so you can feel like you're really there with these stupendous grave goods.
Remember: #WashYourHands like Rædwald
#MuseumFromHome
➡️ google.co.uk/maps/@51.51915…
We love you, Italy. #iorestoacasa
The stunning @UffiziGalleries may be closed for now, but you can take a beautiful virtual tour, thanks to @googlearts.
#MuseumFromHome
#WashYourHands
➡️ artsandculture.google.com/partner/uffizi…
1 of 2 *LEWIS ♟*
The @britishmuseum is doing #MuseumFromHome right: Our favourite bit of Norse 🏴 #archaeology, the Lewis chess and gaming set, can now be viewed *and* printed in 3D via @Sketchfab with an audio introduction!
Remember: #WashYourHands
➡️ sketchfab.com/3d-models/lewi…
2 of 2 *LEWIS ♟*
The Lewis chess pieces in the @NtlMuseumsScot are amazing, and look wonderful in 3D, where you can view some individually.
Just look at the back carving of this chair. Absolutely stunning.
#StayHomeSaveLives
➡️ sketchfab.com/3d-models/lewi…
#OpenAccess is something we like. OA *HISTORICAL MAPS* are things we LOVE ♥️🗺🌎🌍🌏🗺♥️
The amazing @NYPL_Archives have some beautiful digitized maps, including this 🇺🇸 Revolutionary War collection! #AmRev
#StayHomeSaveLives 🏡
#WashYourHands
➡️ digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/ma…
We cannot get enough of #OpenAccess #archaeology, folks, and you can discover something AMAZING in the @JSTOR OA archive. We searched for #Roman between 2010 and 2020, but other #history is available! 🏛️
#StayAtHomeSaveLives | #WashYourHands
➡️ jstor.org/open/search/?s…
🇨🇦 🧐 Search the collections at @CanMusHistory | @MusCanHistoire is fantastic.
#StayHomeSaveLives
#WashYourHands
➡️ historymuseum.ca/collections/
#StayAtHomeSaveLives with a 3D MODEL VIRTUAL TOUR of an actual #ROMAN CEMETERY ☠ with an English audio guide. Brilliant technology meets amazing ancient #archaeology!
#Romans | #history 🏛💀🏛
#WashYourHands
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Wunderbar! 🧐🏛🇩🇪
#StayAtHomeAndStaySafe by virtually touring the Classical delights of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin 🏛 via @googlearts:
➡️ artsandculture.google.com/streetview/per…
Remember to #WashYourHands
A wonderful (völker-wanderful) #IronAge and early #medieval thread 🧵 about the origins, movements, and material culture of the Visigoths for @MSR_Tlse's #ExpoWisigoths. In 🇫🇷, but Twitter translates!
#StayHomeSaveLives
#WashYourHands
#MedievalTwitter
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Wow.
Fantastic @Sketchfab 3D models from @ArkmuseumUiS's #Viking collection, with more to be added! Tortoise brooch & Insular loot FTW.
#MuseumFromHome #Vikings
#StayHomeSaveLives
#WashYourHands
#MedievalTwitter #archaeology
➡️ sketchfab.com/arkeologiskmus…
Join @MassimoOsanna, Director of @pompeii_sites, as he leads you on a @_MiBACT virtual drone tour of #Pompeii! In Italian, but you don't need to speak it to appreciate the splendour of its AMAZING #Roman #archaeology.
#StayHomeSaveLives #iorestoacasa
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A @pompeii_sites English translation of @MassimoOsanna's drone tour of Pompeii on @_MiBACT's YouTube channel 🏛
🎩tip to @pompei79
#StayHomeSaveLives
#WashYourHands
#Romans | #Roman #archaeology
pompeiisites.org/en/comunicati/…
♟CHECKMATE♟
#DYK you can view the @britishmuseum's Lewis Chess pieces in a virtual gallery tour?
#StayatHome #MuseumFromHome #MedievalTwitter
➡️ artsandculture.google.com/streetview/bri…
📷 ©️ @britishmuseum (1831,1101.123 - research.britishmuseum.org/research/colle…)
@NtlMuseumsScot: nms.ac.uk/explore-our-co…
What's our favourite period?
Norse, of course!
*That* late #Viking boatyard on Skye has been stunningly recreated by @StAndrewsOVW. Check it out via @alicampsie75's story in @TheScotsman.
#MedievalTwitter | #archaeology |
#StayHome | #MuseumFromHome
scotsman.com/heritage-and-r…
WOW. @TheNovium virtual #IronAge #archaeology exhibition:
'Arguably the most elaborately equipped warrior grave ever found in England, archaeologists believe he was a refugee [...] Gallic fighter who fled [Caesar] around 50BC'.
#StayAtHome #history
➡️ thenovium.org/mysterywarrior
WOW, this is so cool, #archaeology and #history fans!
The @britishmuseum have relaunched their ALL NEW and improved collections search pages, helping us #StayHome during #lockdown. Just *look* at the beautiful image in the link!
#MuseumFromHome
➡️ britishmuseum.org/collection
BONUS! 🏛 @duolingo having #Latin is our ne plus ultra experience for today. Now, you can be @holland_tom translators of the #Roman classics, or set out on the #archaeology path to be like @wmarybeard and @pompei79!
#StayHome, Learn Latin & Save Lives
➡️ duolingo.com/course/la/en/L…
This is SO COOL!
#StayHome and save lives with this interactive 360° virtual tour of Stonehenge.
This is why we ♥️ #archaeology
Thanks to @EH_Stonehenge!
🚨➡️ english-heritage.org.uk/static/data/vi…
Time travel to the poverty and pollution of 19th-Century #Glasgow, #Scotland, though the other-worldly photography of Thomas Annan, thanks to @natlibscot.
#StayHome and save lives #MuseumFromHome #ArchivesVirtualVisit
📷 digital.nls.uk/learning/thoma…
Wow: SO FASCINATING. This will help us #StayHome!
The amazing Oxford Dictionary of Family Names is FREE for the rest of this week. Type in your family surnames and the website will generate a bespoke map of their distribution in the 1881 census!
➡️ oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/a…
FREE! #StayHome in style by reading the fantastic '#Scotland in Early #Medieval Europe', ed. by Dr. Alice Blackwell (@earlymedieval)
Free to read online, it contains a brilliant array of scholars. 🎩tip @MedievalCarly
#MedievalTwitter | #archaeology
➡️ sidestone.com/books/scotland…
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