WebThe Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology (/ æ ʃ ˈ m oʊ l i ən, ˌ æ ʃ m ə ˈ l iː ən /) on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is Britain's first public museum. Its first building was erected in 1678–1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities that Elias Ashmole gave to the University of Oxford in 1677. It is also the world's second university museum, after the …

WebThe Ashmolean is the University of Oxford’s museum of art and archaeology, founded in 1683. Our world famous collections range from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art, telling human stories across cultures and across time.

WebMuseum in Waco, TX with a Cabinets of Curiosities Room named for John K. Strecker, who was curator for 30 years, the museum was established in 1893 and was the oldest museum in Texas when it closed in 2003 to be incorporated into the Mayborn Museum Complex. A Small Wunderkammer. Web magazine issue dedicated to building a small, contemporary ...

WebAlthough today principally a museum of cultural art objects and antiquities, the British Museum was founded as a "universal museum".Its foundations lie in the will of the Anglo-Irish physician and naturalist Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753), a London-based doctor and scientist from Ulster.During the course of his lifetime, and particularly after he married the …

WebThe School of Athens (Italian: Scuola di Atene) is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael.The fresco was painted between 1509 and 1511 as a part of Raphael's commission to decorate the rooms now known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.It depicts a congregation of philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists from …

WebLa Smithsonian Institution est une institution de recherche scientifique, créée sous l'égide de l'administration américaine en 1846.Elle a au fil des années développé ses vocations éditoriales, muséographiques, pédagogiques et éducatives. Elle est associée à un vaste complexe de dix-neuf musées et neuf centres de recherche, principalement situés à …

WebJohn Egerton Christmas Piper CH (13 December 1903 – 28 June 1992) was an English painter, printmaker and designer of stained-glass windows and both opera and theatre sets. His work often focused on the British landscape, especially churches and monuments, and included tapestry designs, book jackets, screen-prints, photography, fabrics and …

WebAinsi, l’Ashmolean Museum d’Oxford ouvrit en 1683, présentant les collections des cabinets des Tradescant, père et fils, et celles d’Elias Ashmole. Celui-ci établit clairement le lien entre les collections de spécimens et la connaissance scientifique : « Parce que la connaissance de la Nature est très nécessaire à la vie humaine ...

WebAi-Da is the world's first ultra-realistic humanoid robot artist. Completed in 2019, Ai-Da is an artificial intelligence robot that makes drawings, painting, and sculptures. She is named after Ada Lovelace. The robot gained international attention when it was able to draw people from sight with a pencil using her bionic hand and cameras in her eyes.

WebThe Greece runestones (Swedish: Greklandsstenarna) are about 30 runestones containing information related to voyages made by Norsemen to the Byzantine Empire.They were made during the Viking Age until about 1100 and were engraved in the Old Norse language with Scandinavian runes.All the stones have been found in modern-day Sweden, the …