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#museums

Nearly 60,000 Color Photos Of the Early 20th Century Are Now Free To Use These would be perfect for your next Pinterest board, presentation, or even a big inspo board for your novel (if you’re creating one).The “Archives of the Planet,” is a compilation of nearly 60,000 photos, free to use.  Released by the Albert Kahn departmental museum in France, this was move is actually part of a project to ensure the preservation of the world’s visual history. The Archives were started in 1908 by Albert Khan, a French banker that wanted to get photographs of humans around the world. He decided to hire 12 photographers to visit 50 countries and compiled all the photos in this collection. Through this project, he hoped that it would result in “a sort of photographic inventory of the surface of the globe, occupied and fitted out by man, as it appeared at the beginning of the 20th century.”  The Archives have a total of 25,000 color photos of early 20th-century life and 34,000 other images. For those interested in getting these photos, you can download almost 80% of the collection in full resolution through the museum’s Image Portal. If you’d like high-resolution versions of any of the photographs, the establishment states that they will need to create a profile with the website before accessing them. Image credit: Archives of the Planet #archives #images #collection #France #ArchivesofthePlanet #AlbertKhan #museums 

A Little Girl Donated Her Favorite Rock to a Museum and the Museum Put It on DisplayAtlas Obscura brings us this heartwarming story from the Poole Museum in Poole, Dorset, UK. This is a local history museum, so it’s very appropriate that local residents would like to contribute to it. Two years ago, 9-year old Bethan did.This young girl was visiting and was deeply impressed with what she saw. Look at the featured works from the museum and you can see why. Poole has a long history and, for a small town, an impressively endowed museum collection.Bethan wanted to contribute and so donated her favorite rock. The curators placed this rock on display, so visitors can now see it when visiting.Image: Poole Museum#museums