Le Grand Pressigny, a Castle-Museum in the Loire

PRE-HISTORY IN THE SOUTH LOIRE REGION
This is a wonderful place for ancient history buffs.
The plain around Descartes in South Touraine is famous for exceptional quality flint. Tools carved from this found their way all over Europe during the Neolithic and Paleolithic eras.
Many of these tools can be seen in the Musee Departemental de Prehistoire (Touraine’s [...]

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Paris: Musee National de Ceramique

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
MUSĒE NATIONAL DE CĒRAMIQUE
At the gates of Paris along the River Seine, the National Ceramic Museum adjoins the national factory that produces Sevres porcelain, and the expansive Parc de St Cloud.
The museum was created in the first years of the 19th century by Alexandre Brongniart, who became director of the porcelain factory in 1800. He [...]

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Spurlock Museum of Cultural Heritage

 SPURLOCK MUSEUM of Cultural Heritage
At the University of Illinois, UIUC, a division of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
What a thrill for a museum lover! The Beauty of places very close to my Backyard too.
By world standards this museum is fairly small, but the exhibits are of world-class standards—educational, very well set-out and marked. [...]

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Another Centennial: Daniel Burnham’s Plan of Chicago (1909)

 

Another Centennial: Daniel Burnham’s Plan of Chicago (1909)
Helping to Make Chicago What it is Today
One hundred years later, what would Burnham think?
The miles of lakefront development on Lake Michigan are a hugely attractive feature of the Windy City. People can walk or run for miles; there are beaches for swimming and places for picnics; we [...]

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“Masterpiece of the Month”

Take a look at the Masterpiece of the Month for March, April, and May (click on the link in the box on the right of the page).
Enjoy.

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