Museum London
421 Ridout Street North N6A 5H4 London, ON, Canada

Here are our gift picks for those on your list striving for Artful Living! You know the type: goes to the One of a Kind show every year, difficult to shop for, has everything and everything they have is beautiful and artisan-made. Have you heard of Swedish Dish Cloths before? They last for months, dry super quick, save a tonne of paper towels, and are available in lots of cute prints #stockingstuffers . Full disclosure, this account admin swears by them Shop online or in st...ore ALSO, did you know that buying gifts from @ShopMuseumLondon supports both the Museum and local artisans? Plus we offer FREE local delivery, complementary gift wrapping, curbside pick up, and in-store shopping, so no need to worry about the shipping delays affecting many other e-tailers! 2. Novack's print by @jenhamiltonart, $50 1. Mug by @lovebiteceramics Bear Cave Nesting Puzzle, $45 Black Walnut Serving Platter, hand-crafted by Frederick Rodger, $200 Paper maché cardinal. Handcrafted by Phylis U'Ren. $190 3. Swedish Dish Cloth (set of 2), $15

Are you sitting down for this one? Being asked to take a seat implies big news is coming, so get comfortable! Whatever you are sitting on (hard, soft, swivelly, or wheeled) you'll learn more about the history of chairs in our tour of the exhibition "Sit On It" with Curator of Regional History Amber Lloydlangston. The exhibition features artwork and historic chairs from the Museum's collection.

#MuseumLDN History Moment - November 18, 1888 Have you phoned a friend, family, or someone you loved lately for the sole purpose of catching up and seeing how they are? This is your prompt On this day, the first long distance call is made between London and St. Thomas. This photograph depicts a construction crew laying long distance lines into London five years earlier in 1883. Long Distance Telephone Line Construction Crew

Tomorrow at noon, learn more about the history of chairs in our video tour of the exhibition "Sit On It" with Curator of Regional History Amber Lloydlangston. The exhibition features artwork and historic chairs from the Museum's collection. Watch on Facebook https://buff.ly/2Lq9ki9

Museum London needs your help for an exhibition comparing baby and child care in the 1920s with baby and child care in the 2020s. Although the basics of baby care haven’t changed over time, the details of how parents, predominantly mothers, provided this care has. Museum London would love your input so we can include the voices of local mothers (across socioeconomic groups, race, ability, sexual orientation) describing what they are now doing to care for their infants and small children as well as their sources of information. If you’d like to participate, please contact Amber Lloydlangston, history curator at Museum London. She can be reached at [email protected] and 519-661-0333, ext. 4275 Babi-Sitter Chair, Around 1959, Gift of Catherine McEwen, 2016

The last few days of Wordsfest are upon us! Tonight @ 7 pm - Emma Donoghue: In Conversation with Manina Jones Wednesday - The Forgotten Ones: Untold and Unseen Consequences of COVID-19 Thursday - An Evening with iskw & Sarah Legault Saturday - Inside the Artist's Studio: A Visit with GardenShip & State

#MuseumLDN History Moment - December 7, 1953 Margaret A. Fullerton, a former teacher at Central Collegiate, became the first woman to be elected to London City Council. She won a one-year term for Ward 2 with the backing of the Local Council of Women. P.S. We're a day late on this history moment so we could digitally clean up the image for you!

This is the last puzzle in our contest to win a free artist-made and hand printed face mask! Take your mind of this week's plunge into cooler and windier weather with a journey to Tepotzlan, Mexico in 1924 . https://buff.ly/3nwzCgl Edward Weston is considered one of the great innovators of 20th century photography. Using black and white images he became known for taking realistic photographs rather than trying to make his works look like paintings as was the trend at the sta...rt of his career. In his late 30s, Weston spent four years working in Mexico. The town of Tepotzlan (where this photograph was taken) has a small pyramid that dates back 1500 years and, according to myth, is the birthplace of the feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl. Rather than focus on these stories and histories, Weston instead draws our attention to the composition of intersecting angles, and crisp lines of light and dark. We can almost feel the textures of brick, grass and wood, and the lone floating sombrero. See examples of realistic, conceptual, staged, and caught images in Museum London’s current exhibition "Realism: A Century of Photographic Art". See more

Join us to see bestselling author Catherine Bush, who will be joining us to discuss Blaze Island, her new climate-themed, Shakespeare-inspired novel! The host will be our own Curator of Public Programs, Anita Bidinosti. Free to register at the link below!

Our friends at @tapcreativityon have a great set of short and fun artist interviews going on for Culture Days. Click through to learn more about local #ldnont artists!

Not sure what to do on these cold, dark winter evenings? Enjoy our newest exhibition tour narrated by Curator of Art, Cassandra Getty. This exhibition has something for everyone including Micheal Lambeth's early social realism, Suzy Lake's feminist portraits, the Indigenous voices of Shelley Niro and Greg Staats, and Osheen Harruthoonyan's fantasy photographs. The exhibition is on view until January 17, 2021. Read more about the exhibition http://museumlondon.ca//resolution-a-century-of-photograph

Happy Diwali #ldnont !

That’s a wrap on Esmaa Mohamoud’s Instagram takeover with Museum London and @visualartscentre ! Thanks for following along, and make sure to follow: Esmaa Mohamoud @thequeenthrone Sean Weisgerber @seanweisgerber Curtia Wright @curtia Aaron Jones @ehrohn... Esmaa’s exhibition is touring at the following museums, hopefully you’ll have the chance to see it! Art Gallery of Hamilton @at_theagh from Feb. 7, 2021 to May 24, 2021 Ottawa Art Gallery @ottawaartgallery Fall 2021 to Winter 2022 Winnipeg Art Gallery @wag_ca Fall 2022 to Winter 2023 Esmaa Mohamoud, Glorious Bones, 2018-19, 46 repurposed football helmets, African wax prints, faux soil, metal. Courtesy of Georgia Scherman Projects. Photo courtesy of the artist

Today is the last day of Esmaa Mohamoud's Instagram takeover! Check out our Instagram page to see the artists that inspire her and new work made during her artist residency https://buff.ly/3ls0L3a : Curtia Wright, "I've fought Wars in my mind", 2019, oil on canvas

Our Instagram takeover with Esmaa Mohamoud started today! Check out the first post here: https://buff.ly/3d3CIo2 Esmaa will be sharing the artists that inspire her until Thursday! : Sean Weisgerber, "JUN. 26, 2019", Acrylic on linen, 35" x 28 "

We hope everyone had a happy World Teachers’ Day today! We miss having teachers and students come by the Museum for field trips, but there are many ways to bring the Museum into the classroom with our Teacher Resource page! You don’t have to be a teacher to use them either. Thanks to Canada Life Co for funding some of these resources https://buff.ly/30DN3SD

Remember summer? You can still savor the last few drops at @shopmuseumlondon with this completely raw honey by @drizzle_honey . It's the perfect addition for your morning tea or evening cocktail and comes in several varieties. The Ginger Shine honey is flavoured with organic ginger, lemon zest oil, natural elderflower extract, natural chamomile tea extract, and lemon verbena oil. Shout out to the dragonfly for joining us for this fun photoshoot

Parking update: For the rest of 2020, receive two hours of free parking every day at city-owned parking lots (like ours) and on-street parking meters in the downtown and Old East Village by using the code ‘B2B20’ on the HonkMobile app!

Two years ago we opened #ldnont 's newest community space, the Centre at the Forks! We had a full weekend of programming and partnered with the @LondonArtsCouncil for Invitation to Korean Mountain featuring large-scale hangul (Korean calligraphy), a performance bya 5-person traditional Samulnori troupe, and an opportunity to write your name in hangul! #ThrowbackThursday #DoPeopleStillDoThrowbackThursdays

The Visual Arts Centre of Clarington and Museum London are excited to announce that residency artist Esmaa Mohamoud @thequeenthrone will be doing an Instagram takeover! Next week, Mohamoud will be sharing some of her favourite artists with you and why they've inspired her practice. Above, is a sneak peek of a work in progress made during her residency. Mohamoud's new work and current practice coalesces fantastical moods with Anti-Black Racist attitudes, simultaneously cr...itiquing contemporary systems of oppression that proliferate neo-slavery, while also ennobling Black bodies through agency reclamation and cultural veneration. : Untitled (in progress), 2020, digital image. @visualartscentre #ArtAcrossCanada See more

Today we wear orange to honour the children who survived the Indian Residential Schools and remember those who didn't. September 30 was chosen because this was the time of year when Indigenous children were historically taken from their homes to residential schools. #orangeshirtday Shirt by @rezonanceprinting

#MuseumLDN History Moment - September 29, 1868: The first @WesternFair opened on the grounds north of what is now Central Avenue, between Richmond and Waterloo streets. The fair has been held annually since 1868 except for an interruption during the Second World War and again this year, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. : Prize List, 1903, Transfer from the Markham Museum, 2014

We need your help #ldnont ! Museum London is 80 years old this year, and we want to mark it by celebrating Londoners who make a lasting difference to our community. We are working toward an exhibition in 2021 that will pair a work of art or artifact from our collection with written responses from people who contribute in significant ways to our community. But before the exhibition can happen, we want YOUR input. We’d love to know who Londoners think best represent London. ...Who are the people living here today - community leaders, activists, mentors, advocates, educators, and innovators - who you think make the Forest City the best place to live? Please e-mail us at [email protected] by the end of the week with your recommendation. Self-nominations are very welcome! Pride Parade 2013 Costume, 2013, Collection of Museum London, Gift of Ms. Naomi Nadea, 2013 See more

#MuseumLDN History Moment - September 28, 1875: On this day, Blackfriars Bridge, London’s first iron bridge, opened. The Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio, built the 219 foot (66.8 m) structure. Today it is one of the few remaining bow-type bridges in North America. Image: Photograph, 1880s, Gift of Albert Coventry, 1982

S W I P E to find out what's going on behind the closed doors of the Ivey Galleries right now. The team is busy installing a new photography exhibition that will open next Saturday, October 3. "RESOLUTION brings together works by 28 artists to demonstrate ways in which the camera has been used to record and explore traces of the past, challenge realities of the present, and impact how the future is envisioned. Before a new exhibition goes up, the previous one has to come ...down, and for a moment this is what the Museum looks like. There are blank walls ready for a new paint job, the walls need to be moved around to match the layout for the new exhibition, holes in the walls need to be covered up, and much more. It’s like renovating your home...every four months! Big shout out to our preparators who do this work as well as handling delicate artwork/artifacts, framing the art, assembling large and/or intricate sculptures, mounting the work onto walls and plinths, and basically anything to do with getting artwork from inside the vault and onto our gallery walls. #MuseumLdn