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

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.

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

UPDATE: Tonight's talk at 7pm has been rescheduled for a later date in December. Please stay tuned for more details re: discussion with "GardenShip and State" contributors Sharmistha Kar, Ashley Snook, and Michelle Wilson. Sorry for any inconvenience.

#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!

Western University researchers are looking at the novel coronavirus from every angle: medicine, science, education, culture, and socio-economics. Join us as we bring three of those researchers together to talk about the ways COVID-19 is taking local and global inequalities to new heights. This event is co-sponsored by Western Alumni. Registration is free

#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

Our friends at Magisterra are starting their fundraising week and are launching a new video every day with performers, award recipients, and a few surprise guests! Take a look at this second video in the series and donate to help them continue making live music and educational programmes in London.

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

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

FRI DEC 11 - We're partnering with Creative Aging for a full day of virtual programs, events, and activities for older adults and their care providers. Stop in and see what talented older adults are doing in the community, join a discussion, watch demonstrations, sing holiday songs, and take a walk down memory lane, and it's all FREE! Register and view the day's itinerary here: https://buff.ly/37wGcNx Instructions on how to participate in the Zoom gathering will be provided.

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

Did you enjoy yesterday's studio visit with the artists from the 2021 exhibition "GardenShip & State"? Join artists Sharmistha Kar, Ashley Snook, and Michelle Wilson as they work on and discuss projects from their own domestic workspaces tomorrow at 7pm for the Wordsfest program "Around the Kitchen Table: Artists talk" https://buff.ly/3pKRRk1 Sharmistha Kar

This is the chair nightmares are made of! The Operating or Dental Chair circa 1910 features: Cold metal seat Ubiquitous beige hospital paint Rust... Hospital sticker (partially faded away, of course) See this and other fine examples of the objects we use every day in our exhibition Sit On It!. Operating or Dental Chair, Circa 1910, Gift of the London Health Sciences Centre, 2004 #Halloween #ldnont

In 2019, we partnered with WordsFest London Canada to screen "Nosferatu" with a live soundtrack. This Friday, we're going online with the 100th anniversary screening of "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" paired with a live soundtrack by local group, Wormwood! Get your FREE tickets 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!

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

We are exploring darkness and light in this 14-minute fall art tutorial using white paint on black paper. This video tutorial goes live Tuesday evening and will be made available after so you can create when it's convenient for you! Join local artist Jacqueline Demendeev in her studio, were she will show you how to make an October Beast inspired by her recent exhibition Great Beasts of the Dark Forest ( https://www.badjacqueline.com ). She’ll walk you step-by-step through getting ideas for your beast, techniques for working with white paint on black paper, and bringing it all together in your own final painting. To do this project, you'll need: black paper, white paint, a paintbrush, pencil, black marker, cup of water, and masking tape.

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

Starting in 1 hour is "Inside the Artist's Studio: A Visit with GardenShip & State". Join the artists from their studios and workspaces, as they show us their works-in-progress for their upcoming 2021 exhibition at the Museum!

We’re having an outdoor screening of (1931) feat. Boris Karloff ! We'll be running the film continuously from sunset on Halloween until the sun rises on Sunday, November 1! Drop by the Wolf Sculpture Garden behind the Museum for an all-night silent screening of this classic horror film. #SociallyDistancedDateNight still from "Frankenstein" (1931), Universal Pictures

Tonight after the Wordsfest program "Inside the Artist's Studio", we'll be projecting a slideshow of works-in-progress from our upcoming 2021 exhibition "GardenShip and State"! https://buff.ly/3lPn2sh Lori Blondeau

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!

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

Puzzles and prizes are back! The first fall puzzle is inspired by the vintage cards on display in our "Greetings From The Past" exhibition. This card has all our favourite #Halloween tropes: Jack-o-lantern, smiling moon in a cloudy sky, a flying witch, and a forest full of black cats (adorable). Contest details and puzzle link here https://buff.ly/3kx4gFk Merry Halloween!

Tomorrow, WordsFest London Canada is taking you on a virtual tour of artists' studios to see their works-in-progress for the 2021 exhibition "GardenShip & State". Join us to discuss their artistic processes and shared aims regarding GardenShip’s intersection of environmental critique, decolonial theory, and artistic practice

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 "

Happy Diwali #ldnont !

#MuseumLDN History Moment - October 25, 1899: A contingent of volunteers from No. 1 Military District left London to fight in Great Britain’s South African War (1899-1902) on this date. In this conflict, British imperial forces defeated the smaller armies the South African Republic and the Orange Free State mustered. While the South Africans excelled at guerilla warfare, the British adopted a scorched earth policy. It saw white civilians herded into what would later be called concentration camps. Black civilians suffered even more. Also herded into camps, many were forced to work or starve.

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

London is getting a makeover! We’re taking part in two mural projects to help beautify the core for everyone that works, lives, and plays downtown. Mural #1 - Connected in Chaos Richmond Street underpass between York and Horton Museum London volunteers Jeni Peralta, Denise Love, and the Museum’s Public Programmer Anita Bidinosti are seen here enjoying the weather and prepping the mural for the Richmond Street Underpass Arts Project. Last Saturday, they painted a mass...ive river that will be the backdrop for the community mural panels being installed next weekend. They got lots of love from people driving by and honking their support as well as folks walking up and thanking them. Denise and Jeni are 2 of 9 Museum volunteers who participated in the 13 week process of community development in creating the mural images. Shout outs to organizers and artists Alejandro Zuluaga and Melanie Schambach! Mural #2 - Forest City Playground Market Lane at Covent Garden Market You may have already seen this mural being worked on every day this week. We’re supporting the creation of this mural which features artwork by Steph Boutari @stephboutari , Holly Pichette @urban.iskwew , and Meaghan Claire Kehoe. This mural is almost wrapped up, so take a wander through Market Lane as the murals continue to take shape and imagine how the mural can come to life in the @engage_art augmented reality app. See more

#MuseumLDN History Moment - October 22, 1901: History-minded Londoners launched the London and Middlesex Historical Society at the Collegiate Institute. It’s still operating today. The purpose of the society? [T]o encourage an interest in the history of the City and County, gather together records of the district, and by means of publications make these records more generally known. In the early years, the society also collected artefacts, including these wool carders, which belonged to Appollina Ingersoll Carroll, sister of War of 1812 heroine, Laura Ingersoll Secord.

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

Are you enjoying the Forest City Film Festival this week? We miss screening the films in our theatre, but you can see all the wonderful films online PLUS we're in it this year! Webisodes produced a short doc about Ron Benner's living installation "As the Crow Flies" https://buff.ly/37qn7OJ

It's the last week to enter the Forest City Passport contest and be entered to win a prize pack worth over $1,000! Download the passport, get it stamped at the locations listed in link, send a pic of the passport, and that's it! Check it out https://buff.ly/3ofZBKg

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!

On view in : Niro is a member of the Six Nations Reserve, Bay of Quinte Mohawk, Turtle Clan. Her art challenges gender imbalance and cultural appropriation, and observes changes in Indigenous identity across time. She employs still photography a great deal, and the disciplines that grew out of it, video and film. "Buffet" features a well-known historical representation of a Native American, surrounded by different language translat...ions for the word money. While the coin (known as the Buffalo or Indian Head nickel) can reach a significant value, and the iconography of the stern, silent warrior great cultural currency in the mainstream, actual Indigenous lives have been valued much differently. Shelley Niro, "Buffet", 2016, digital photograph on paper, ed. 1/5, Collection of Shelley Niro See more

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

Have you gotten your passport stamped yet? Explore #LdnOnt and our most popular local treasures with the Forest City Passport! Listeners can visit online at FM96.com / 1031freshradio.ca / Country104.com and 980cfpl.ca and download the printable passport to keep in your bag as you explore London! As you visit each location, you’ll receive a stamp and then you can submit your passport online for the chance to win a prize pack from Tourism London valued over $1000! Each location... also has signs so listeners will know they are in the right place to collect their stamp! Locations include: East Park London, Joe Kool's, Fellini Koolini's / The Runt Club, London's Source For Sports, Toboggan Brewing Co., Chick Boss Cake, Boler Mountain, Museum London, Powerhouse Brewing Co, Palasad South London, Palasad Socialbowl and Wich is Wich: New Style Home Style Food.! * Contest closes on Sunday, October 25 with the winner being announced on Monday, October 26th.

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