Category Archives: Museums

Pssst…French Books

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

  The Grolier Club of New York City has fostered interest in, and support for, book arts for more than 125 years. It also offers regular exhibitions, displays, lectures and publications on publishing, printing, libraries, book art and the book … Continue reading →

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eBook Treasures

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Bibliophiles will be dead chuffed to discover eBook Treasures a new way to view (and own) rare books. The UK-based organization has partnered with the British Library, the Royal Society, the John Rylands Library and the British Natural History Museum … Continue reading →

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Library of Human Imagination

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Jay Walker is an American entrepreneur and inventor (he founded priceline.com and holds more than 250 U.S. patents) who has used his massive wealth to create an astonishing private library in his Connecticut mansion. Walker’s Library of Human Imagination contains … Continue reading →

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London Curiocity

Posted on October 29, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

London Curiocity is a map/magazine (or magazine/map) and website dedicated to the history and mystery of London. It offers unique and quirky angles on exploring Britain’s greatest city. The clever magazine is folded like a pocket map and fits in … Continue reading →

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Charles Dickens at 200

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Charles Dickens fans should not miss the Morgan Library and Museum’s exciting bicentennial celebration of the author’s birth. With North America’s greatest permanent collection of Dickens manuscripts, books, letters and documents, the Morgan Library in midtown Manhattan is the perfect … Continue reading →

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Mappamundi

Posted on October 1, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

The glorious Fra Mauro Mappamundi was created between 1458 and 1459 by the Venetian monk/cartographer/sailor/explorer/adventurer Fra Mauro. The map was commissioned by Portugal’s King Alfonso V and produced at the Camaldolese Monastery of Saint Michael on the Venetian lagoon island … Continue reading →

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The East is Red (and funny too)

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Dutch architecture group MVRDV has won the design competition to build the outrageous new home for Hangzhou, China’s much anticipated comic and animation museum. Composed of eight whimsical giant speech bubbles the museum will be an exciting venue uniting the … Continue reading →

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Ferry Cross The Mersey

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Hat-tip to Evan Smythe for this timely post: The spanking new Museum of Liverpool, designed by 3XN Architects of the Netherlands and Manchester-based AEW group, opens today. The exciting building establishes a nexus that naturally connects the city and harbor. Located … Continue reading →

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A True Peake Experience

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) was a prolific and astonishingly original writer and artist, who touched at one time or another on almost every literary form. To celebrate the centenary of Peake’s birth, the British Library’s exhibition The Worlds of Mervyn Peake … Continue reading →

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Van Gogh Goes Green In London

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

The world’s first living wall replica of a painting masterpiece, Van Gogh’s A Wheatfield, with Cyrpresses, is now “hanging” in Trafalgar Square, London at the National Gallery. Working with GE and ANS Group, the museum designed, grew and installed the … Continue reading →

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