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#OnThisDay in AD 537, the construction of the new church of Hagia Sophia was completed and inaugurated by Justinian I, who supposedly exclaimed, "Oh Solomon, I have outdone you!"
December 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Einhörner gibt es wirklich - zumindest in Kunstwerken. Aktuell zeigt das #Museum Barberini die #Ausstellung „Einhorn. Das Fabeltier in der Kunst“: musermeku.org/einhorn-auss...

Bild: Jan Brueghel der Jüngere: Das irdische Paradies, 1620 - Museo de Bellas Artes, Sevilla

#mittelalter #kunst #kultur
Gemälde: Einhorn im Bild von Jan Brueghel der Jüngere: Das irdische Paradies
December 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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🎄Der #Computeum #Adventskalender🎄
🎅Bonustürchen: Hochleistungsrechnen🖥️

Wer hat sich die neueste GPU gewünscht und nicht bekommen?
Egal, in 8 Tagen wär die doch eh sowas von "Letztes Jahr"

Ein Analogrechner mit Logarithmentafel und Oszi hat aber immer Zukunft!

Schöne Feiertage Euch allen!

#Retro
Auf einer Holzkiste steht ein Heathkit Analogrechner aus den 1950ern, daneben Typ 551 Zweistrahl-Oszilloskop von Tektronix von ca. 1960. An der Wand dahinter hängt eine Schultafel mit 5-stelligen dekadischen Logarithmen.
December 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Domitius Tullus—An Ancient Roman Scrooge Who Left A Posthumous Legacy Of Good Will

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#history
Domitius Tullus—An Ancient Roman Scrooge Who Left A Posthumous Legacy Of Good Will - The Historian's Hut
Domitius Tullus was an incredibly wealthy Roman who possessed great quantities of land, money, and valuable artworks around the time of the 1st and 2nd centuries. During his lifetime, he had a monstro...
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December 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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motgm.uk
It's the last #SaturdayShowoff of 2025, so let's make it a good one - #Manchester 436 is undergoing a rebuild to take it back to 1930s condition. We need donations to buy specialist parts and services - can you help? If you can, please visit our fundraising page at justgiving.com/campaign/man...
December 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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A very happy Christmas to all those who celebrate! Hope everyone is having a good festive break. Below is a mid-12th century relief of the Nativity. Originally from the Lower Rhine, the relief is now part of the collections at the V&A in London. 📸 My own. #Christmas
December 25, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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We hope you've enjoyed our advent calendar of vintage buses. Today is the last one, and we wish you a happy and peaceful Christmas. The 25 in Bolton went to Halliwell, later the 525, and this bus is in Bolton's Newport Street waiting for its trip out of town.
A SELNEC orange and white bus waits by a bus shelter on a sunny day. The destination says Halliwell Bolton, 25. The driver is reading a newspaper, and at the right a man walks past wearing a raincoat and flat cap.
December 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Opon (Container) (Nigeria, Yoruba, 20th century)

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Opon (Container) (Nigeria, Yoruba, 20th century) Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
December 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Central Eastside, Hosford-Abernethy, Portland, OR
#pdx #murals #graffiti #streetart
December 23, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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musermeku.bsky.social
[Film-Tipps] In Museen können Monster lauern, sie sind aber auch für ein Abenteuer gut und können sogar ein Ort zum Verlieben sein. Wir empfehlen die besten Filme rund um Museen: musermeku.org/museums-filme/

#film #kino #museum #kunst #kultur
Von Horror bis Komödie: Die besten Museums-Filme | musermeku
In Museen können Monster lauern, sie sind für ein Abenteuer gut und können ein Ort zum Verlieben sein. Wir empfehlen die besten Museums-Filme.
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December 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Hadrian and his mother-in-law, Matidia.

Today marks the 1906th anniversary of Matidia's consecration following her death in December AD 119. Hadrian granted her extravagant honours.

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December 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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#SmellingTheBouquet Designed by the glassmaker and jeweler René Lalique, this elegant 1929 Skyscraper perfume bottle and cover was inspired by the elegant Art Deco Chrysler Building (NYC) for Parisian couturier Lucien Lelong's (1889-1958) "N" perfume. Courtesy of The Richard H. Driehaus Collection.
Red enamel aluminum bottle cover with scalloped design on left with clear glass scent bottle with black scalloped design on right. Design is inspired by the Art Deco Chrysler building in New York City.
December 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Astronomical #winter starts today. It's the shortest day of the year in terms of daylight with the sun starting to set later each day until Summer Solstice.
The mosaic depicts the dancing Genii (protective spirits) of the four seasons. The Genius of winter is wrapped in a heavy cloak.🧵1/2

#Solstice
Roman mosaic showing four youthful Genii of the seasons dancing around a draped central object, each in different clothing and seasonal attributes, with the winter figure at upper right wrapped in a heavy hooded cloak.
December 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Winter Solstice ✨Craving a bit more light today? A reminder that Helios by Luke Jerram opens 27 Dec - a perfect post‑Boxing Day plan.

Free entry (ticketed), and you can book in advance or on the day. Loads of slots to choose from, 10:15am–3:15pm.

📍 St Albans Museum + Gallery. On until 25 Jan 2026.
December 21, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Something lovely for the weekend! A 1,800 year-old Roman glass flask shaped like a mouse!

Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️

📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#Archaeology
My photo shows a small Roman flask made of translucent cobalt blue glass in the form of a fat little mouse, 14.6 cm in length. The body of the vessel is rounded and stands on four feet made from tooled trails of glass. A separate blob of glass forms the head with eyes, ears, and a pointed nose. The neck of the flask is funnel-shaped and slightly up-turned to look like a tail. The flask surface is decorated with trails of glass which have been flattened and notched. Modern scholars refer to this type of trailed decoration as ‘snake thread’. On display at the Met Museum in New York
December 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Lucas Cranach: Christ Child Triumphant over Death and Sin (I530-40), detail

Museo Lázaro Galdiano / Photo: @musermeku.bsky.social

#museumofskeletons #art #medievalart #medieval #kunst #kultur #mittelalter
Painting: A skeleton is being trampled, next to it a snake coiled around a staff and a lamb
December 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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#FindsFriday: A 'dragonesque' brooch from the British Museum. Its belly is inlaid with coloured enamel, and the pin (missing) would have fitted on the back between the two necks. These wonderfully sinuous brooches were popular in the decades after the Roman invasion.
#RomanBritain
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The S-shaped metal brooch is thickest in the middle, where blue and yellow enamel has been delicately inserted in chequered and swirling patterns. The terminals look like cute dragon heads, with upright ears, round eyes and an upturned snout. It's about 5cm long.
December 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Ahead of Christmas, it feels fitting to share this Roman fibula - a decorative pin once used to fasten garments - shaped like a stag.
In my Christmas-influenced imagination, it looks rather reindeerish! 🎄
Is it Dasher, Dancer, or maybe Rudolph? 🎅

From the Roman Villa at Borg, 2nd c. AD
📷Villa Borg
Close-up of the fibula on a reddish background. It has the shape of a running stag with large antlers. It's decorated with enamel, which has almost completely broken off. The large black eyes are preserved.
December 19, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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✨ Io #Saturnalia! 🎉
Rome’s winter #festival honoured #Saturn —god of renewal, abundance & time— with feasting, role reversals, & merriment. Dec 17–24. It began with the dedication of Saturn’s temple, included domestic rituals, public banquets, gambling, work paused, & even slaves joining in.
Images of the Temple of Saturn in Rome Images of the Temple of Saturn in Rome Images of the Temple of Saturn in Rome
December 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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The stone bridge leading to the entrance to Flat Ledge Quarry in Rockport was completed in 1872. Blasting an opening from the quarry to the pier at Pigeon Cove took 4 years to complete. Learn more in “Hammers on Stone: The Granite Industry on Cape Ann.” bit.ly/4mCYGBp
December 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Spot the difference: One of our archivists wearing this awful Christmas jumper, and the Grenville Armorial showing the 719 quarterings of the family.
A member of the archive team standing in a strongroom. He is wearing a very bright Christmas jumper with lots of different Christmas symbols arranged in a patchwork pattern. The Grenville Armorial. It's a coat of arms that's just absolutely garish. There are 719 different quarterings that are just thrown together with no sense of graphic design or style.
December 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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🔔 Silver bells, silver bells — The #Romans celebrated #Saturnalia 17–23 Dec, a major festival honouring Saturn, god of agriculture, abundance, & renewal. Marked by feasting, gift-giving, role reversal, & public merriment —Many Saturnalia traditions influenced midwinter celebrations across Europe.
Images of representations of the Roman God Saturn in fresco, mosaic and bas relief, he is depicted as an older man with beard, covered head and a sickle in his hand Images of representations of the Roman God Saturn in fresco, mosaic and bas relief, he is depicted as an older man with beard, covered head and a sickle in his hand Images of representations of the Roman God Saturn in fresco, mosaic and bas relief, he is depicted as an older man with beard, covered head and a sickle in his hand Images of representations of the Roman God Saturn in fresco, mosaic and bas relief, he is depicted as an older man with beard, covered head and a sickle in his hand
December 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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#CeJourLà #OnThisDay 17/12/1935 1er vol du Douglas DC-3, il est connu sous le nom de DC-3 pour la version civile et de C-47 Skytrain ou Dakota pour la majorité des appareils militaires. Un exemplaire est conservé au @museeairespace.bsky.social
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Douglas C-47A Skytrain Dakota - Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace
Le musée présente le C-47A 42-92449 (c/n 12251) qui servit dans la 8th Air Force en Europe à partir du 25 mars 1944. Le C-47 est le dérivé militaire du DC-3
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December 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Small poster of the De Le Warr Pavilion, only 50p in our gift shop! Why not buy it to celebrate the Pavilion’s 90th birthday!! Makes a great Christmas gift.
#Bexhill
The poster is of a vintage railway poster for the town of Bexhill-on-Sea. It shows the De La Warr Pavilion, a long low slung white building in an art deco modernist style. There are a couple of sailing boats drawn up to the beach in front of it. “Write to De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, for free guide. Frequent electric and steam trains … cheap fares by Southern Railway.”
December 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Inside the mother of all Neolithic tombs ... Newgrange in Ireland. This photo, from excavator Michael O'Kelly's book, shows the chamber (with spiral carving) that is illuminated via the famous roofbox opening at winter solstice. A 5,200-yr-old celebration of the return of the sun. #TombTuesday
December 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM