After a year and a half of preparation, I am pleased to announce that the Rosenbach’s online project Today in the Civil War: Dispatches From the Rosenbach Collection will [finally] begin tomorrow, November 6, on the 150th anniversary of the election of Abraham Lincoln. The project uses a blog format, so you can just hop …
This week saw the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums (MAAM) meeting in Philadelphia. On Sunday our facilities manager Stacey Hendricks talked about our 2008 gallery relighting project as part of a panel and on Wednesday the Rosenbach were lucky enough to be a project site for the White Gloves Gang, organized by the Registrars Committee of …
First off, a quick bit of vampire news to go along with tomorrow’s Dracula events. Those of you who followed the Lincoln project last year may recall the Seth Grahame-Smith mash-up novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. I just found out that 21st-Century Fox has won the rights to the movie version, to be produced by …
In late August we posted about Dave Burrell’s fourth composition for the Rosenbach, which is entitled Portraits of Civil War Heroes and will premier January 19 & 22. To further whet your appetite, Farrar Fitzgerald, our intrepid Sunstein Family Assistant Director of Education, has filmed a couple of short interviews with Dave about his upcoming …
First of all, thanks to everyone who made last week’s Banned Books Week a success. If you weren’t at the Authors of Mischief reading, you might enjoy this post from the blogger at “A Quick Succession of Busy Nothings,” who was. Now we are into Dracula season–check out this nice feature from WRTI on our …
Patrick here, giving our tireless Kathy a little break from the blogosphere. It’s only been, oh, almost three years since my last post, so I suppose I’m overdue. My reason for blogging today has to do with some fun gallery activities we’ve built into our recent exhibitions, as well as their fascinating responses that we’ve …
Now is the moment you’ve all been waiting for–the answers to last week’s object quiz! This gizmo is a saddle watch and pedometer manufactured by Ralph Gout around 1800. The horse’s movement causes the watch and outer case to move up and down, forcing the chain to pull on the pedometer mechanism. The lower right …
I’m away this week, so I figured I’d turn the tables and make you, the reader, do the work. I’ve pulled some images of unusual or quirky items in our collection. Your job is to figure out what they are. Answers in next week’s post or if you can’t wait you can always use our …
I realize that I never finished my something old, something new… series of posts from a few weeks back, so here’s the last installment–something borrowed. Along those lines I thought I’d fill you in on some of our items that are currently being borrowed by other institutions, or will be soon. Lending to other institutions …
Dave Burrell called last week to say he would no longer be making his weekly visits to the Rosenbach’s reading room. After spending months reading through the museum’s collection of early civil war letters, broadsides, maps, photographs and diary entries he was retreating to his composition books to process his thoughts into music. The basic …