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• Rum, Buggery and the Lash

  • Art
  • Collections
  • Military

  June 27, 2019

  For Pride Month, I wanted to think about the countless hundreds of unnamed gay and lesbian sailors who lived and worked on board Navy ships in the days before our rights were broadly recognized and respected. I owe them so much as an out and proud American citizen!

  

• A Lion by Any Other Color. . .

  • Collections
  • Conservation
  • Environmental Conservation
  • Mariners' Park

  June 4, 2019

  If you’ve visited our Lions Bridge over the last couple of weeks, you may have seen our signature Lions turning shades of red and orange. Never Fear! Nothing is wrong. Rather, the conservation team is giving our Lions a ‘grooming.’

  

• Venice’s Marriage to the Sea

  • Collections
  • Cultural Heritage

  June 1, 2019

  This weekend marks the annual Festa della Sensa in Venice. Although the festival didn’t start until 1965 it commemorates and recreates the ancient traditional ceremony of Sposalizio del Mar, the event in which Venice is symbolically married to the sea.

  

• Come One, Come All and Witness The Amazing Tattooed Boy!

  • Art
  • Collections
  • Photography

  May 20, 2019

  

• The Bronze Door Society Paves the Way for New Possibilities at the Museum!

  • Conservation
  • Science
  • Technology

  April 25, 2019

  The new Zeiss Axioscope 5 will allow conservators and scientists to view samples at high magnification with polarized light, darkfield and brightfield illumination, and ultraviolet visible fluorescence. These analytical features, in conjunction with our new workstation, camera, and imaging software, will allow us to view, capture, and share information that we previously could not attain in-house.

  

• Using Art Reproductions to Create a Home

  • Art
  • Collections
  • Photography

  April 10, 2019

  

• The Death of an Attribution

  • Art
  • Collections

  April 10, 2019

  What’s an attribution, you ask? It’s the act of ascribing an artwork to a particular artist (if the painting isn’t signed) or as a depiction of a particular event (if it isn’t specifically identified by the artist). To attribute a painting to an artist one must be very knowledgeable about the artist’s oeuvre. To make an attribution to an event one must be a VERY careful and detail-oriented researcher.

  

• World Water Day – Monitoring the Water Quality of Mariners’ Lake

  • Conservation
  • Environmental Conservation
  • Mariners' Park
  • Science
  • Technology

  March 22, 2019

  On a day dedicated to the sustainable use of water, we thought we would talk about our efforts to monitor and conserve our waterway, Mariners’ Lake.