Museum

Usually, the attitude to "street art", or simply graffitis, is quite negative. City authorities fine artists who paint on walls and then paint over graffiti. But in some cities, the leadership went to meet street artists and allowed them to bring creativity to the urban environment. Let&# ...

We present you a beautiful and rare Tea gown outfit in Liberty Aesthetic Movement style, made of copper satin. It dates back to 1897... The waist has a golden writing "Liberty & Co Ltd Artistic and Historic Costume Studio". The outfit is made in pseudo-medieval style. The bodice is ...

Tatiana Nikodimovna Kosourova, head of the sector of decorative and applied art of the Department of Western European Art in the Hermitage, talks about embroidery on women's clothes in the late 18th century. During the online tour of the "Caretaker" eposide, which took place in the ...

The private Museum — the Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, Portugal — has a large Japanese embroidery with four phoenixes that dates back to the 19th century. It is made of silk and gold threads. In Asia, the Phoenix is imperial house, fire, justice, sun, obedience, fidelity, or ...

Tatiana in touch with her story about the Museum of Bags and Purses in Amsterdam.I want to share my emotions about visiting the Museum of Bags and Purses in Amsterdam!This is the largest collection of bags in the world. Since 1996, the founders (by the way, sellers of vintage and antiques) have ...

I'm used to the old name: the State Museum of Oriental Art, but in recent years the museum's name has changed, now it's just the Museum of the East. Once the museum was located on the Obuh street, and now on Nikitsky Boulevard. Once I couldn't take my eyes from the incredible ...

The British Museum is the main historical and archaeological museum in UK and one of the largest museums in the world. It is located in Bloomsbury, London. The British Museum was founded in 1753, its first collections were rare works of art by the famous English physician and naturalist Hance Sloan, ...

The Victoria and Albert Museum or V&A is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design. The museum is located in South Kensington. It is one of the twenty most visited art museums in the world. V&A has an area of 12.5 acres (5.1 ha) and 145 galleries. The museum has ...

When I was a little girl, I collected boxes. Candy or shoes boxes and so on. They were a real celebration: I made doll's houses from all these boxes. Sewed blankets and pillows, and little residents. too. I could spend hours in my little-boxed world. And here I am, now, being already not a ...

I offer you to look into an apartment in Copenhagen, the interior of which has not changed since 1898.Till 1960-es, the apartment belonged to two spinsters — sisters who didn't change a thing. And they never got married fearing to lose this apartment because according to their father's ...

This coloured embroidery with repeating floral design is made on textile. Floral motifs were very popular during 1770-1790, the epoch of late rococo or braids. Clothes of the nobles — dress and camisoles — have been richly decorated. These few samples were purchased from Isabelle Goldschmidt. Now ...

I want to share with you what I've found on the Internet about the king of fabrics — velvet. I will not tell the story of velvet, and I suggest simply to admire the works of the most famous tailors and fashion designers of different times. I'm grateful to those whose hands created these ...