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Ho, ho, ho! Santa here—listen, folks, the elves went on strike. So this year, I’m outsourcing Christmas shopping to the Global Museum’s online store! Forget socks and fruitcake, you’ll find unique gifts here👉 www.zazzle.com/globalmuseum #Xmas #Christmas #gifts #giftideas #ChristmasGifts

A smooth, brown lizard with short legs on sand. it has round black eyes without eyelids.

a giant day gecko, the gecko the geico gecko is based on. it is a bright green lizard with small, bead-like scales. The lizard is licking its own eyeball.

Snakes aren't the only reptiles that can't blink.

Some lizards also have a clear scale over their eyes (called a spectacle)

and many geckos have nothing covering their eye at all (shocker, the geico gecko inaccurate).

📷Brendan Schembri, Andy Goldby

Dir Exhibition Design, Peabody Essex Museum, 24-25 2nd round PEM is seeking a uniquely qualified candidate to lead our Exhibition Design Department in the imaginative planning, design and implementation of changing exhibitions, long-term collection galleries an...

⭐ JOB POSTING⭐
Director of Exhibition Design
The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), in Salem, MA.
PEM is seeking a qualified candidate to lead our Exhibition Design Department
Full details here👇
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The Christmas Story in Art.
How have artists depicted Christmas across centuries? Explore works by Duccio, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Giorgione, and Gerard David.
National Gallery Of Art
Sunday, December 14, 1:00 p.m.
East Building Auditorium and Virtual
FREE register👇
www.nga.gov/calendar/chr...

AshmoleanAdvent Day 8: Black Bear Cub.
Painted by Japanese artist Mori Shūhō, this small bear looks directly out at the viewer while it sits uneasily on a ledge amid the snowflakes. He was a member of the Mori School of artists who specialised in depictions of animals.
@ashmoleanmuseum #globalmuseum

Queensland Museum accused of misleading teachers and children about the cause of climate change
Education program sponsored by Shell’s Queensland Gas Company is climate obstruction dressed up as education, advocacy group says
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #globalmuseum #museums #climatechange

The Grand Cairo Museum visitors so captivated that they fall into water.
After 10 years of waiting, the Grand Cairo Museum opened its doors in early November. The first of them, seem so captivated by the Statue of Rameses II that they may end their visit in the water.
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They’re apparently selling freshly cut lumberjacks on the streets of NYC now

Waterlekkage in Louvre beschadigt boeken over Egyptische oudheid Een waterlekkage vorige maand heeft honderden boeken beschadigd op de afdeling Egyptische oudheid van het Louvre in Parijs. Volgens adjunct-directeur Francis Steinbock van het Franse museum gaat het o...

A water leak last month damaged hundreds of books in the Egyptian Ancient section of the #Louvre in Paris. According to adjunct-director Francis Steinbock of the French museum he is going on the books which are increasingly requested by Egyptologists
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Cricket cage (18th–19th century) by unknown.

Cricket cage (18th–19th century)
Creator: unknown

🏛️ The Metropolitan Museum of Art (object 60742)

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Carved altar - depicting St Anne, 1510.
In the National Gallery & Museum, Buda Castle, Budapest.
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Frank Gehry, Titan of Architecture, Is Dead at 96.

He designed some of the world’s most recognizable buildings, notably the spectacular Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, his masterpiece.

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Tête de Moine - a Swiss-Alpine Cheese you don't slice .... you shave it into little flowers this thing called a Girolle🇨🇭🧀

© charcuterie.la- (IG) #globalmuseum #cheese #food #Switzerland

Fabergé Silver Mounted Bird Charka, circa 1896.

@HeritageMatterz #globalmuseum #silver #Fabergé

When Vincent van Gogh moved to Paris in 1886, he was suddenly exposed to Impressionism's colors, which radically changed his palette.
So, to experiment cheaply with colour harmonies before trying on canvas, he used small balls of coloured wool.
He would arrange them to see how hues interacted

French tartan boots
c. 1855

@vintagestuff4 #globalmuseum #boots #costume #Tartan #footwear

Lucas Museum Exodus Continues as Chief Curator Pilar Tompkins Rivas Departs.

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Ancient Etruscan monster gets new state-of-the-art home in Florence museum.
Fearsome 2,400-year-old sculpture of a chimaera has been reinstalled in a dedicated gallery at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze

www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/12/05/a... #museums #globalmuseum #sculpture

Playing Santa Does Strange Things to a Man. What It Did to Bob Rutan Was Even Stranger.

Bob Rutan is legendary among the tight-knit fraternity of Macy’s Santa Clauses. Like many of these men, playing Santa changed Bob. Profoundly.

www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a6... #globalmuseum #SantaClaus

14-Year-Old Wins Prize For Origami That Can Hold 10,000 Times Its Own Weight.

While most 14-year-olds are folding paper airplanes, Miles Wu is folding #origami patterns that he believes could one day improve disaster relief.

www.sciencealert.com/14-year-old-...

Meet the Galapagos Islands Vampire Ground Finch and many other weird birds in this Weird Birds Art Calendar!
A gift for home or office.
Large: 11”l x 14.25”w.
16 unique grid styles, 21 language & culture styles
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#bird #birdscalendar #calendars #weirdbirds #artcalendar

If Tunnel Books are your thing, what about other...

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For those who've never seen film of Ernst Udet's unpowered landing at the 1933 Chicago International Air Race, here's a re-post.
@ron_eisele #globalmuseum #aviationhistory #history #flying

Art history is too important to be the preserve of the privileged The subject is endangered at A level just as it couldn’t be more essential or universal. Helen Barrett makes the case for its survival in British schools

My piece in defence of art history in British schools.
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Some families pass down recipes.
This family passed down a 600 year old oven.
This #bakery in Altamura, Puglia has been firing since 1391 and still turns out Pane di Altamura the way #medieval families did it: durum wheat, slow rise…
Bon appétite!
@CultureExploreX #globalmuseum #bread #Italy

Speaking of the #Hermitage, the Peacock Clock is one of the most extraordinary surviving 18th‑century #automata. Created in the late 1770s by James Cox, it was bought by Prince Grigory Potemkin for Catherine the Great, shipped to Russia and reassembled there.
@xmuse_ #globalmuseum #museums #clocks

Closed UK River & Rowing Museum seeks new homes for its collections.
Henley institution calls for sector-wide expressions of interest for ethical transfer of objects.
www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour... #globalmuseum #museums #collections

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Taking Stock.
As the year-end approaches all kinds of American museums are grappling with how they can best respond to recent challenge.
Dec 11, 2025 12:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Meeting👇
us06web.zoom.us/j/83923840905
Meeting ID: 839 2384 0905 #globalmuseum #museums

Inside Qatar’s Monumental New Museum for M.F. Husain, the ‘Picasso of India’.
The new Lawh Wa Qalam: M.F. Husain Museum in Doha houses more than 150 works by the legendary Modernist.
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Libraries and museums get federal funding back after Trump cuts.
A judge ruled that the Trump administration's actions were unlawful. Now, libraries and museums across the country will have access to money after a months-long limbo.
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n... #globalmuseum #IMLS #museums #Trump