Jennifer Malin's Blog, page 10

Hi, Ho, Silver

In 1895, on private land outside of Pompeii, the son of a local landowner discovered the most fabulous hoard of Roman-era silver tableware ever uncovered. Dubbed the Boscoreale Treasure after the town where it had been buried for almost 2,000 years, the...



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Steppin' out

As a kid, one of my favorite paintings was Charles Willson Peale's Staircase Group, shown on the right, which I'd seen at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. (I love that it's framed with door molding and has a real step at the bottom.) The story goes that...



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Musing about the Muses

The first museums, in ancient Greece, were temples dedicated to the Muses – the nine divine sisters who presided over the arts and humanities. But the early museums weren't just places of worship. They also served as centers for collecting art and...



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A Solstice Story

Not only is today the solstice, it's the anniversary of the day Nando Parrado walked out of the Andes after 72 days of being stranded. In 1972, on Friday the 13th of October, a Uruguayan plane crashed in the mountains. If that wasn't bad luck enough for...



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