Museums

It’s been 59 years since the pristine wreck of Vasa, the Swedish warship commissioned by King Gustav II Adolf which sank less than a mile from dock on her maiden voyage on August 10th 1628, was salvaged from Stockholm bay. It broke the surface of the waters on April 24th, 1961, where, floating on pontoons, … Read the full post →“Celebrate the raising of the Vasa”

This year is the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 150th anniversary. To celebrate their sesquicentennial, the Met has been uploading movies from their vast archive of films about art going back to the 1920s. The Met’s Office of Cinema Works opened in 1922 when the moving image captured on film was less than 30 years old. … Read the full post →“From the Met’s film vault”