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  • BEYOND THE FRAME: The Color of War

    • Art
    • Beyond the Frame
    • Collections
    • Military
    • Military Conflict

     In this episode of Beyond the Frame, we turn an eye to the past and to the present, examining the symbolic effects of war in this somber World War II painting by famous British Maritime Artist, Montague Dawson.

  • Harnessing the Atom: Hyman G. Rickover and the Birth of the Nuclear Navy 

    • Military
    • Science
    • Shipbuilding
    • Technology

  • João Mascarenhas de Morais: Major General to Brazil’s Smoking Cobras

    • Collections
    • Cultural Heritage
    • Military

  • This Flask Holds More than Schnapps

    • Art
    • Collections
    • Cultural Heritage

    Artifacts are more than the sum of their parts. Rather than seeing artifacts as just things, we should instead see them as silent storytellers, enlightening whoever may listen with tales of their making, their application, and their eventual retirement from use.

  • Working with Broken Glass

    • Collections

    In disassembling this object, we found a second print, a photogravure, hidden inside the frame that someone had used as a backing board. The lithograph then found its way into our Collection with the steamship.

  • Beyond the Frame: A New Way of Seeing

    • Art
    • Collections
    • Cultural Heritage

    What our eyes and minds understand – at a distance- as literal, changes with each approaching step we take. What was the solid form of a fisherman in his boat, dissolves into thousands and thousands of fractals of light and color.

  • Traveling for SCIENCE!

    • Conservation

    The conference I presented at was The Pan American Ceramics Congress and Ferroelectrics Meeting of Americas (PACC-FMAs). This meeting happens every two years and materials scientists and engineers make up the largest group of attendees.

  • Simulated Seas: Raft

    • Collections
    • Cultural Heritage
    • Exploration
    • Recreation
    • Technology

    At The Mariners’ Museum and Park, we believe that we are all connected by the water and by our shared maritime heritage. And through that connection, we are every one of us, mariners. That’s what we say. I’ll be honest with you, though. I didn’t really feel that.

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