#museum post

Dear historically interested internet,

Apparently I’m not busy enough with the summer semester start online, so I did what I usually do: I spend a shitload of time researching. This time, there’s three other research lists I want to start with you first, as these are where I’ve found many of the museums I want to put into your corontine-bored hands today. The wonderful photos of the MET in NY, the national history museum of the UK, the Louvre and the Victoria and Albert museum were taken from free photos website https://pixabay.com/. Research lists for fashion history as I put together are floating around the internet numerously. Karolina Zebrowska did a wonderful video on where to learn about fashion history, and she gave a variety of media to comb through in the video description. Much thanks to her, it’ll take a while to go through all of it. Two actual lists on fashion and design museums like this one that Karolina Zebrowska included are this one and this one. Now, such far-buried blog posts and articles are a) hard to find and b) have a habit of being deleted, outdated or vanishing from the surface of the internet for other reasons, so I decided to go through them and save the museum pages sorted by region. Therefore, all credit for the existence of this tumblr post ultimately goes to Karolina Zebrowska and the admirable people who put together these two lists. Please go check out her video, she did much, much more than listing museums.

So, here we go:

Museum collections of fashion history, textiles and design

United Kingdom

Victoria and Albert Museum for art and design in London National Museum of Scotland, art and design Bath Fashion Museum Manchester Art Gallery

Europe

Swedish digital museums Kyoto digital archives Spanish Costume Museum, in Spanish only Museé Yves Saint Laurent Paris, in French only Rijkstudio: Photo collection of the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands

Historical museum of Frankfurt, fashion history collection in English Stadtmuseum Berlin in English, mainly for paintings and appled arts Fashion history collection of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg in English Fashion, textiles and costume collections of the Stadtmuseum München (Munich) in English

USA The MET museum New York online and related to this MET museum tours 360° The New York Public Library online Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and Their fashion collections Smithsonian Design Museum Smithsonian National Museum of American History Drexel University Westphal College of arts&design, historic fashion collection Los Angeles fashion institute of design & merchandizing (FIDM) M. H. de Young Memorial museum of fine arts in San Francisco, costume and textile arts department Henry Art gallery of the university of Washington George Washington university Museum Museum of fine arts of Boston, David and Roberta Logie Department of Textile and Fashion Arts Newportal museum, Rhode Island Newfields museum of nature & art University of New Hampshire, Irma G. Bowen historic clothing collection Kent state university, Gallery of costume Los Angeles County Museum of Art, collections Philadelphia Museum of Art Royal Ontario Museum Texas Fashion Collection The Valentine: Richmond, Virginia

Otherwise English-speaking:

Textile Museum of Canada Museum of New Zealand

....nope... but a damn good replica. Midwest USA born and raised. . 

On Wednesday, October 29, 2014, I visited the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria. This museum was something I didn't expect. Our tour guide showed us things I haven't seen before  and knew many things about the things they showed.

Though I enjoyed many things within in the museum something I found extremely interesting and fascinating was when our tour guide showed us a scene from Titanic (1997). In this scene he showed us what it took to make a while scene come together with the different elements of sound.

At the time, I didn't have a vast knowledge of how hard it was to to put a scene together and how many different elements a scene had. Most of this scene, he told us, was recorded  with  ADR. Alot of the sounds were recorded within an soundbooth and then later replaced in the final take. 

There were about five different tracks within the scene. Two for music, one for the Foley Artists, one for music and one more for sound effects. If any of these tracks were missing, the scene would be different and incomplete.

After playing the scene we had to figure out where each of these sounds were coming from, when we finally learn, it amazed me. Most of the sounds that we heard, I would have never thought to put in the scene.  When Kate Winslet's character falls, it sound like an actual person falling, but take away all the other sounds and it sound fake. We soon learned that the sound was made by a sack of potatoes tied to a chair and then that chair being tipped over.

When the pipe was falling down, it made a sound that was very hard to detect. Many people had different thoughts of what it could be. We were then told that it was a slowed down track of an elephants blowing it's horn. I would have never thought of that, it sounds so real and unlike an elephant.

A sound most of us had guessed was when the wires snapped. This sound was one of a trains horn. Though in the full scene with all of the sounds it was hard to tell. But when the sound was isolated it was easy to identify it was a train's horn.