It would take 300 to 700 years to digitize just a portion of LAC’s archive given its current budget -Barker #LACpanel #cdnpoli
— James Smith (@JsrSmith) May 17, 2013
May 18th is International Museum Day, so each day this week we’re going to be highlighting some of Street View’s trips to these treasure troves of culture, art and history as we go indoors with Museum-view. We’ll be using the hash tag#museumview , if you’d like to contribute your own finds.
On the back of other items were small pencil markings made by the thieves. A few said “W2,” short for a nickname the thieves gave themselves: “weasel 1” and “weasel 2.” Anderson said those marks are now important, too. “It’s part of the documents’ history,” she said.
I’m wondering if there are any good pieces that focus specifically on pre-20th Century “fandoms”, like the devotion to 19th century theater actors, or Byzantine chariot racing gangs. I feel like there is a whole rich pre-history of fan-like practices that could give us a lot of insight into the…
Family album of last tsar resurfaces in Russian museum ow.ly/kY87B #hiddencollectionsrock
— AASLH (@AASLH) May 14, 2013
via Instapaper: social memory
As Czech historian Milan Hubl once said: “The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.
“Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.
“The world around it will forget even faster.”
