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Fabergé Silver Mounted Bird Charka, circa 1896.

@HeritageMatterz #globalmuseum #silver #Fabergé

Febergé Silver Mounted Bird Charka, circa 1896.
#silver #globalmuseum #faberge

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
#books #travel #globalmuseum #19thcentury

A family of cheetah sleep with the forest guard every night.
This is what the camera recorded.
(the Cheetah Experience, an endangered animal breeding centre in Bloemfontein, South Africa") #globalmuseum #cheetah #animals
#animals #cheetah #globalmuseum

Can we take a moment to admire the Estonian National Opera car park barriers
@drhingram #globalmuseum
Estonian National Opera car park barriers. The barriers are designed as conductor's hands: a giant hand holds a tapering, white baton, which blocks the drive. The boxes with the mechanism to lift them are painted black, slightly suggesting a person in a suit.
#globalmuseum @users/drhingram

In 1850, a storm exposed a hidden village on Scotland’s coast. It was Skara Brae, a 5,000 year-old Neolithic settlement where around 100 people once lived. It is one of Europe’s oldest and best-preserved prehistoric sites.
@xmuse_ #globalmuseum #history #Scotland
Skara Brae, a 5,000 year-old Neolithic settlement
#History #Scotland #globalmuseum

Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums museivaticani.va/content/musei…
#MosaicMonday #Archaeology #globalmuseum @AlisonFisk
Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.
#archaeology #MosaicMonday #globalmuseum

Scientists discovered the world’s largest spiderweb, covering 106 m² in a sulfur cave on the Albania-Greece border.
Over 111,000 spiders from two normally rival species live together in a unique, self-sustaining ecosystem—a first of its kind.

@Rainmaker1973 #globalmuseum #spiders #science

#science #spiders #globalmuseum

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