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Ein Lektürehinweis zum #TagDerProvenienzforschung: #WerkstattGeschichte 77/2018 "umstrittene objekte", der Thementeil hg. v. Felix Brahm & Bettina Brockmeyer mit Beiträgen der beiden sowie von Felix Schürmann & Holger Stoecker:

▶ werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_au

Unter allen, die heute boosten, verlosen wir ein Exemplar des Hefts!

@histodons @historikerinnen @museum @culturalheritage

Century-Old Seaweeds Discovered in
Carpinteria Attic. Rare Species Collection Shows Ocean
Changes After Industrialization and Plastics
History, woman hobbyist, collections, academia, museums, nature, climate change. This is such a great article and touches upon so many topics.
#History #WomensHistory #Collections #Seaweed #ClimateChange
independent.com/2025/02/12/cen

The Santa Barbara Independent · Century-Old Seaweeds Discovered in Carpinteria AtticRare species collection shows ocean changes after industrialization and plastics.

Heute vor 5 Jahren begann in Deutschland der 1. #Corona-#Lockdown. Wie #Museen damit umgegangen sind, welche Sammlungs- und digitalen Aktivitäten sie z.B. entfaltet haben, hat seinerzeit unsere #Expokritik-Redaktion beobachtet:

▶ Sebastian Kühn, Andreas Ludwig, Pavla Šimková & Lotte Thaa, Corona im #Museum, #WerkstattGeschichte 84/2021, werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_au

@museum @histodons @historikerinnen @archivistodon @histstm

How-To Geek: How I Track My Music Collection With an Easy SQLite Database. “If you’re a music fan, you probably have shelves of records or CDs. How do you keep track of them? You could use a database, but aren’t they complicated to set up? SQLite is a powerful tool that lets you set up SQL databases without a server. It’s surprisingly easy to set up. Here’s how I did it, despite having a […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/17/how-to-geek-how-i-track-my-music-collection-with-an-easy-sqlite-database/

📰 "Ancestral remains should no longer be displayed in UK museums, say MPs"

A parliamentary group has published a report called Laying Ancestors to Rest. It condemns the sale of human remains and their display.

The report is mostly concerned with colonial crimes and wants law changes that allow national museums to repatriate remains they hold.

You can read the article here: theguardian.com/world/2025/mar

How do we feel about this out there?

There is a new story online in our 'Stories of Frisia'.

The story is about the album amicorum of Herman Pricker from Emden (1575).

Read the story about this book: frisia.rug.nl/en/stories/journ

In our #digital #collections you can view the entire book online: dbc.rug.nl/digital/collection/

On 'Stories of Frisia', places in the northern #Netherlands and in northwest #Germany are linked to #books from the Special Collections in the University of Groningen Library.

Cleaner, customizable, and coming soon!

The @pixelfed app keeps getting better and better.

And yes, Collections and Stories are coming to the app in a big way.

Think Pinterest for Collections and Snapchat for Stories.

These aren't new features, they've been on the web for years, we're just now giving them proper official app support 🚀