April 17, 2025
By Parker Thompson
Sauntering out of Versailles: Science and Splendour at the Science Museum in London, I found myself with about 20 minutes to spare before our group moved across the street to the V&A. Having quickly made up my mind to indulge my inner child, I hurried over to Flight, the museum’s permanent gallery examining the history of aviation. Overwhelmed by the abundant hanging planes, I nearly missed the introductory cases which explore ...
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April 15, 2025
By Molly Martien
In our British Design class, we visited several cultural institutions including historic homes and museums ranging from the Black Cultural Archives to Sir John Soane’s Museum to the Museum of the Home in the United Kingdom. Each site discussed and examined British design in various and unique ways. Out of all the sites we went to, the Museum of the Home in London was one of my favorite visits. Why? Below I will share several of my ...
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April 14, 2025
Lauren Bradshaw, WPAMC '25
The Dianne H. Furr Moravian Decorative Arts Gallery at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina contains over 150 objects created by Moravian settlers living in Wachovia between 1753 and 1850.1 This collection includes a variety of textile and needlework objects, several displaying the makers’ skills in ribbonwork, an intricate embroidery technique involving stitches in silk ...
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April 11, 2025
Victorian Artists and their Home Studios
By Ashley Vernon
Cocooned in a leafy neighborhood in the west of London, the Leighton and Sambourne houses stand as testimonies of the two artists and their lives within the late Victorian period. Frederick Leighton (1830-1896) and Edward Linley Sambourne (1844 -1910) lived very different lives as artists, yet their legacies live on through museums dedicated to their homes. As intentionally designed combined ...
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