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Category: museums

Two Historians Walk Into a Bar

Posted on: January 2, 2018 Last updated on: January 3, 2018 Written by: Nicole Belolan Comments: 0
Trudging through an early December snow storm in Washington, D.C., a few weeks ago, after a chilly ten-minute walk, Tyler and I finally spotted our destination:  the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery. After visiting friends and colleagues at Colonial…
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In Search of Magic

Posted on: December 12, 2016 Last updated on: December 12, 2016 Written by: Nicole Belolan Comments: 0
Walking toward the Wagner Free Institute of Science near Temple University in Philadelphia in October, I was a little nervous. My friend Hannah and I thought we were going to go back in time and never return. Why the concern,…
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Finding George Washington

Posted on: April 28, 2016 Last updated on: April 28, 2016 Written by: Nicole Belolan Comments: 0
George Washington (1732-1799) is famously inscrutable. And yet I found him, hanging on the wall at the Powel House (b. 1765) in Philadelphia. Rather, I found his shadow in the form of a silhouette, pencil lines and all. On the…
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Change Over Time

Posted on: February 14, 2016 Last updated on: February 14, 2016 Written by: Nicole Belolan Comments: 0
Watching intently as the workshop leaders shuffled hot embers from the front to the back of the hearth at an introductory hearth cooking workshop I took at Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum yesterday, I wondered whether I would have a…
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I Left My Soul in Antwerp

Posted on: July 19, 2015 Last updated on: July 20, 2015 Written by: Nicole Belolan Comments: 0
As Tyler and I made our way inside Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp, Belgium, this past June, we knew that its stature as a UNESCO World Heritage site meant we would, at the very least, feel like we had an afternoon well-spent.…
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#DisabilityStories Abroad

Posted on: July 15, 2015 Last updated on: July 15, 2015 Written by: Nicole Belolan Comments: 0
En route to our hotel the first night we spent in Brussels, Belgium, this past June, I stopped dead in my tracks in front of a store window despite the fact that I was more than ready to hit the sack…
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Historic House-Hunting in New York City

Posted on: November 2, 2014 Last updated on: November 4, 2014 Written by: Nicole Belolan Comments: 0
“I don’t like the phrase ‘hidden’ New York,” explained a knowledgable and friendly museum staff member at a New York City house museum two weeks ago when I declared that most people just don’t think to visit house museums in NYC when…
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A New Blog

Posted on: May 23, 2014 Last updated on: May 23, 2014 Written by: Nicole Belolan Comments: 0
I have been blogging about antiques and material culture since 2010, about a year after I graduated from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture. I’ve found that blogging is a fun way to reflect on my adventures at flea…
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