Museums - Lili on the Loose

4 09, 2017

Museum Monday: The Hiddensee Treasure

By Lili|September 4th, 2017|Categories: Museums, Travel|Tags: brooch, fibula, Germany, gold, Hiddensee, Hiddensee Treasure, Viking|0 Comments

This amazing Viking treasure was revealed in 1873 after flooding on the German island of Hiddensee on the Baltic Sea. It is believed to have been created in the late Viking Age (10th century) possibly for the Danish King Harald Bluetooth. It was all pure gold and weighs about 600 grams. The center piece in the above photo is a fibula (brooch) and contains imagery of both Viking and Christian symbols. Scandinavian metalsmiths were renowned for their skill, and the detail of twisting gold represents snakes or dragons. Imagery on the pendants combined an eagle or owl head almost forming a Thor-like hammer

1 09, 2017

Anubis Hieroglyphics in Memphis, Egypt

By Lili|September 1st, 2017|Categories: Museums, Photography, Travel|Tags: 2015, Africa, Anubis, Dream of Egypt, Egypt, Great Temple of Ptah, Hieroglyphics, Memphis, Middle East, mit rahina museum, sarcophagus|0 Comments

Two different depictions of Anubis on a sarcophagus. This photo is from the open-air museum in Memphis, Egypt. Every Friday Lili shares her favorite photography & the stories behind the photos.

21 08, 2017

Museum Monday: Museum Aficionados of Reddit

By Lili|August 21st, 2017|Categories: Museums, Resources, Travel|Tags: porn, Reddit|0 Comments

I love museums. Part of it stemmed from the fact that I didn't go to museums a lot as a child (or at least not as much as I would have liked!) And part of it was because for a period of time, I really really wanted to become a museum curator. But alas, one of those childhood dreams didn't come true. Instead, I like to visit as many museums as I can. However, there aren't a lot of variety of museums in Colorado, so I often look at virtual collections. The easiest way to "curate" your own collection is

7 08, 2017

Museum Monday: Numismatic Museum of Costa Rica

By Lili|August 7th, 2017|Categories: Museums, Travel|Tags: 2017, Banco Central de Costa Rica, banknotes, Beach Hopping 2017, bills, Casa de Moneda, Central America, Coin Museum, coins, Costa Rica, gold, Museo Numismático, Numismatic Museum, Plaza de la Cultura, San Jose, silver|0 Comments

The Banco Central de Costa Rica has multiple museums in its subterranean location underneath the Plaza de la Cultura in San Jose, Costa Rica. On the ground level is the pair "museums" of Museo Numismático and Casa de Moneda (while deeper down is the Museo del Oro Precolombino). These top two museums features the historical use of currency in Costa Rica and its oldest pieces are from 1516. You'll see coins, banknotes, and tokens from private companies as well as proofs, dies, and a printing press. Here are a few from the collection: This interesting set with the die used to make them

24 07, 2017

Museum Monday: Standing Ramses II Statues at Memphis

By Lili|July 24th, 2017|Categories: Museums, Travel|Tags: 2015, Africa, Colossus of Ramses II, Dream of Egypt, Egypt, Great Temple of Ptah, Hieroglyphics, Memphis, Middle East, mit rahina museum, Pharaoh, Photo Essay, Rameses II|0 Comments

While the open-air museum at Memphis is known for the colossal statue of Ramses II there are two great deception of the Pharaoh wearing the white crown of Upper Egypt on the grounds. The first is found next to the garden area. The second is found among the rows of broken statues. Museum Monday is an every other week series about museum news, objects, and reviews.

10 07, 2017

Museum Monday: Djed-maat-es-ankh’s Mummy

By Lili|July 10th, 2017|Categories: Museums, Travel|Tags: 2015, Canada, canopic jars, cartonnage, Djed-maat-es-ankh, Mummy, North America, ROM, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Yea! Sports|0 Comments

This is not a sarcophagus, it is actually called a cartonnage, meaning the mummy is covered with layers of plaster and then painted. (Therefore she is sealed inside and cannot be removed or opened.) This cartonnage mummy is a woman by the name of Djed-maat-es-ankh and she now resides at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada. She was likely an ordinary middle-class woman or even a musician had lived in Luxor in the 9th century BC (22nd Dynasty during the 3rd Intermediate Period) and died of a dental issue. She is one of the best-preserved examples from her timeperiod, although it is rumored

26 06, 2017

Museum Monday: Stone Circle outside Museo Nacional de Costa Rica

By Lili|June 26th, 2017|Categories: Museums, Travel|Tags: 2012, Central America, Costa Rica, Costa Rica Adventure 2012, Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, Plaza de la Democracia y de la Abolición del Ejército, San Jose, Stone Circle|0 Comments

At the Plaza de la Democracia y de la Abolición del Ejército there is this massive glass and metal circle. As I wandered around, inside I found a stone circle. Hundreds of these circles are found all over Costa Rica, and this one sits right outside the Museo Nacional de Costa Rica. They don't know why they were but they are from the Precolumbian era.

12 06, 2017

Museum Monday: Ramses II of the Temple of Gerf Hussein

By Lili|June 12th, 2017|Categories: Museums, Travel|Tags: 2015, Africa, Aswan, Dream of Egypt, Egypt, G Adventures, Gadventures, GAP, Middle East, Nubian Museum, Ramses II, Temple, Temple of Gerf Hussein, UNESCO|0 Comments

One of the most impressive pieces at the Nubian Museum in Aswan is the large Ramses II statue in the main hall. It comes from the Temple of Gerf Hussein, which is now completely flooded. Some parts were saved and moved elsewhere or in museums like this one. But the main rock-hewn temple was badly deteriorated and made of sandstone so couldn't be moved like the great Ramses II temple at Abu Simbel, so instead it was left to be flooded. Its sad to think about so many tombs, temples, and villages that are now lost beneath the waters.

29 05, 2017

Museum Monday: Triceratops at ROM

By Lili|May 29th, 2017|Categories: Dinosaurs, Museums, Travel|Tags: 2015, Canada, fossil, North America, ROM, Royal Ontario Museum, Skull, Toronto, triceratops, Yea! Sports|0 Comments

I love Triceratops! This skull is on view at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada. Museum Monday is an every other week series about museum news, objects, and reviews.

19 05, 2017

Revealing the Mummy’s Secrets

By Lili|May 19th, 2017|Categories: Museums, Travel|Tags: ancient egypt, Colorado, Denver, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, DMNS, Egypt, exhibit, Mummies, Mummies New Secrets from the Tombs, museum, North America, Photo Friday, USA|0 Comments

A mummy in a CT scanner at Denver Museum of Nature and Science's New Secrets from the Toms exhibit from eariler this year. Every Friday Lili shares her favorite photography & the stories behind the photos.