So how do museum staff learn to be museum staff? There are many different pathways, as those of us at the Rosenbach can attest, but it typically involves a combination of study and practical experience. Here at the Rosenbach we have an active internship program to help train the next generation of museum and library …
(C) 2013 by the Estate of Maurice Sendak. My Brother’s Book, the last book completed by Maurice Sendak before he died in May of 2012, was published ten days ago and it has already sparked a number of interesting literary associations ranging from Shakespeare to Austen. It makes sense that a number of reviews so …
On February 8, 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots, was executed after almost twenty years of imprisonment. The anniversary seemed a good time to showcase a letter from Mary. (Yes, this date is in the Julian calendar not the Gregorian, but we’re going to ignore that for convenience sake). George Vertue, Maria Scotorv Regin et Franciae …
This week’s post is another in a series adapted from papers on Rosenbach objects written by our wonderful new class of docents. – – – – – – Interior of front cover of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia. Translated into English verse. Edward Fitzgerald, trans. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1859. EL3.F553r859 Part translation, …
This week’s blog post is again courtesy of Emelye Keyser, the Rosenbach collections intern who wrote a previous post on Rudimentum Novitiorum. Given that Emelye came to the Rosenbach after graduating from the University of Edinburgh, we couldn’t resist asking her to write a piece for tomorrow’s Burns night. — — — — — — …
This past fall the Rosenbach was joined by a wonderful new class of docents. Their rigorous training included ten weeks of lectures and workshops as well as two written assignments on books and objects in the Rosenbach collections. Over the next few weeks we plan to share a selection of their work; we hope you …
Spending time in another century is one of the joys of museum life. Over the last week I’ve been buried in Civil War manuscripts, to the point that when I walk down the street my brain reruns fragments of letters I’ve read or muses on the precise sequences of events in a particular day’s battle. …
If you have a smartphone or PDA, where do you keep it for easy access to all your important information? Maybe in your pocket (if it will fit), or in your purse (if you carry one), or maybe in a holster or belt clip. Here’s a close up of our librarian Elizabeth Fuller sporting her …
The Rosenbach will be closed from December 24 through January 1, so this will be the last blog post of 2012. As I often do, I decided to turn to our collection of Cruikshank illustrations for some images, this time of holiday merriment. If you aren’t familiar with George Cruikshank, you might enjoy this post …
Our national celebration of Washington comes on his birthday, February 22 (February 11 according to the Julian calendar that he would have used then), but December 14 marks the day of his death. Given that Washington has often been revered as a sort of secular saint, it seems only fitting to remember him today as …