And now we have @annatoledano on ‘Resurrecting Lost Objects in the Natural History Museum’ #ResurrectingObjects #MuseumTwitter #BSHSGlobalHist
@annatoledano 1/11 #Museums aren’t forever. Might seem counterintuitive at 1st, but decay, loss, destruction are the norm for objects, not the exception. A challenge for #twitterstorians is to tell stories of lost things from other sources and via new methods #publichistory #BSHSGlobalHist
@annatoledano 2/11 Lost museums are easy to remember. Recreations of @JenksMuseum, @harvartmuseums’ philosophy chamber, @hmns’s cabinet of curiosities focus on bringing to life the whole rather than the part. But the source material often shows individual specimens too 🐊🐡🦜🦞 #BSHSGlobalHist 
@annatoledano @JenksMuseum @harvartmuseums @hmns 3/11 I’m not focusing on lost #museums, but lost #things (although sometimes related!). Things are harder to track in the historical past - they’re small. I encounter this challenge all the time in my own research. #BSHSGlobalHist
@annatoledano @JenksMuseum @harvartmuseums @hmns 4/11 I know there was a #botanicalgarden in 18th-c. Mexico City, but I don’t have a #herbarium of the 🌵🌺🌾 that grew there. @PalacioNaci0nal tries to imagine those objects today, but the garden there now is an homage rather than a recreation. #BSHSGlobalHist
@annatoledano @JenksMuseum @harvartmuseums @hmns @PalacioNaci0nal 5/11 Another ex. close to my ❤️ is @CantorArts’ 🖼️ of @UffiziGalleries’ Tribune of Buontalenti. Like Imperato’s engraving, this is a source for objects! The current tribune @UffiziGalleries is completely rearranged from when Caligo painted the room in the 19th c. #BSHSGlobalHist
@annatoledano @JenksMuseum @harvartmuseums @hmns @PalacioNaci0nal @CantorArts @UffiziGalleries 6/11 #Museums can show loss in fruitful ways. @gardnermuseum leaves gaps where thieves hit. Even w/ exhibit space at a premium, it’s worth it so visitors get a sense of how much is lost. @googlearts has a great comparison w/ historic 📸👀 artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/gAIyZK… #BSHSGlobalHist
@annatoledano @JenksMuseum @harvartmuseums @hmns @PalacioNaci0nal @CantorArts @UffiziGalleries @gardnermuseum @googlearts 7/11 #VR & #AR are the hip thing to share lost objects. Some are really good. @evewithaz’s Museum of Stolen Art brought back tons of 🎨 on ™️ white walls. Her RecoVR w/ #ProjectMosul crowdsources #culturalheritage from ppl all over the 🗺️ youtube.com/watch?v=0EazGA… #BSHSGlobalHist
@annatoledano @JenksMuseum @harvartmuseums @hmns @PalacioNaci0nal @CantorArts @UffiziGalleries @gardnermuseum @googlearts @evewithaz 8/11 But you don’t have to be tech-savvy. @kanishktharoor’s Museum of Lost Objects uses digestible podcast format to share lost antiquities. Its success w/out visuals shows that historians can write abt lost objects & still grab attention bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07… #BSHSGlobalHist
@annatoledano @JenksMuseum @harvartmuseums @hmns @PalacioNaci0nal @CantorArts @UffiziGalleries @gardnermuseum @googlearts @evewithaz @kanishktharoor 9/11 We’ll continue to lose objects again and again, forever. Ignoring human destruction, the organic 🌎 is working against us. In the Bay Area, the 1906 earthquake destroyed @calacademy, @SutroLibrary… the list goes on. #BSHSGlobalHist
@annatoledano @JenksMuseum @harvartmuseums @hmns @PalacioNaci0nal @CantorArts @UffiziGalleries @gardnermuseum @googlearts @evewithaz @kanishktharoor @calacademy @SutroLibrary 10/11 🔥 claimed @MuseuNacional & just now @moca. We know the names of the museums, but hardly the objects. No matter how hard we try to remember, we won’t remember them all newyorker.com/culture/cultur… #BSHSGlobalHist
@annatoledano @JenksMuseum @harvartmuseums @hmns @PalacioNaci0nal @CantorArts @UffiziGalleries @gardnermuseum @googlearts @evewithaz @kanishktharoor @calacademy @SutroLibrary @MuseuNacional @moca 11/11 Let’s write on what we don’t have left more than what we do, piecing together scraps from adjacent sources, adding objects to our cast of ☠️ characters 😉 b/c reading for silences in the archive also means 🔍 for 🤫 among the 📦... #BSHSGlobalHist
