In these unusual times, the Global Village Museum is committed to continuing to serve our community. In an effort to bring the museum to you, we have created our Virtual Museum! Below we will publish articles and links to information about our collections and exhibits.

Previous Virtual Museum posts will now be housed in the Virtual Museum Archive, available here:

Videos:

Juliette Gordon Low: Stories from the Life of the Founder of Girl Scouts

The playback from our Girl Scout program presented February 10th.

Courage, Confidence, and Character: Girl Scouts Changing the World

The playback from our March 22 Virtual Program is now available!

Girl Scouts in Style!

A virtual fashion show of Girl Scout uniforms from 1919 to 2000 presented by the Girl Scouts of Colorado History Committee.

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A Century of Home Brewing – with Charlie Papazian

The playback from our third virtual program is now available!

Virtual Museums Across the World: México

Leisa Taylor –

Museo Nacional de la Muerte (Aguascalientes)

The National Museum of Death opened in 2007 and depicts the historic role of death’s iconography and the funereal arts within Mexican culture, both contemporary and ancient. The Museum takes its visitors through a history of death in México, starting in the Pre-Hispanic era up through the contemporary period. The exhibit Death in the History of México is available online.

https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/museo-nacional-de-la-muerte

Museo Dolores Olmedo (Xochimilco)

Opened in 1994, Museo Dolores Olmedo is located in a rambling stone structure dating from the 16th century. The Museum’s greatest treasure is its paintings, housing some of the world’s most important collections of works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Another collection of popular art presents largely-anonymous masterpieces of ceramic, tin, lacquer, papier-mâché, and copper that village crafters have produced for generations.

https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/museo-dolores-olmedo

Virtual Museums Across the World: New Zealand

Leisa Taylor

New Zealand Fashion Museum

With no fixed abode other than a digital address, the New Zealand Fashion Museum is the world’s first online fashion museum and New Zealand’s first virtual museum. The Museum, established in 2010, is for anyone with a love of fashion, heritage, innovation, and creativity. Founder Doris de Pont hosts virtual walking tours, and online exhibitions include:

The Age of Aquarius: A 70s Revolution;
Remember the 80s: On the Edge, Over the Top;
High Flyers: 75 Years of Air New Zealand Uniforms; and
The Shrinking Swimsuit: 100 Years of Swimwear in New Zealand.

http://nzfashionmuseum.org.nz/

Auckland Art Gallery

With more than 17,000 artworks, the Auckland Art Gallery showcases: New Zealand historic, modern, and contemporary art; outstanding works by Māori and Pacific artists; and international painting,

sculpture, and print collections. On offer is a virtual tour of Enchanted Worlds: Hokusai, Hiroshige and the Art of Edo Japan. The exhibition presents a captivating view into the characters, places, and pastimes of Japan’s self-imposed isolation from the world for more than 250 years. Visitors can also delve into the imaginary realms of myth and legend inhabited by dragons and fantastic beings.

https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/

Pacific Virtual Museum Pilot Program

The National Library of New Zealand, together with the Australian government and National Library of Australia, have established the Pacific Virtual Museum Pilot Program. The pilot phase, through February 2022, will test the concept of providing a single, easy-access online portal for Pacific cultural heritage items held in collections around the globe. Together with celebrating Pacific diversity, the Museum will enable Pacific peoples to connect with their cultural traditions around the world.

https://natlib.govt.nz/about-us/collaborative-projects/pacific-virtual-museum

Virtual Museums Across the World: 7/24/20

Leisa Taylor

São Paulo Art Museum (São Paulo)

Founded in 1947, São Paulo Art Museum has the most important collection of European art in the southern hemisphere. MASP’s holdings consist of more than 11,000 artworks, including paintings, sculptures, artifacts, photographs, videos, and clothing from various periods and regions. The virtual exhibit displays more than 1,000 pieces, including the history of the work, its author, and the artistic context of the time. One online exhibit, Histories of Madness, displays an extraordinary set of drawings made by patients at a São Paulo psychiatric hospital.

https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/masp

National Museum of Fine Arts (Rio de Janeiro)

The National Museum of Fine Arts houses paintings and sculptures by Brazilian artists of the 19^th and 20^th centuries. Established in 1937, it is considered the most important art museum in the country. The collection also includes drawings, engravings, documents, books, coins, decorative arts, furniture, and African art. An online exhibit, Everything the Eye Can See: Views of Rio Janeiro and its Hills, features artistic creations and panoramic views in appreciation of the city’s hills.

https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/museu-nacional-de-belas-artes

Football Museum (São Paulo)

The Football Museum highlights Brazilian soccer not only as a sport, but as a cultural heritage that is part of the identity of Brazil. The Museum examines soccer in the 20^th century and how Brazilian habits, customs, and behaviors are inseparable from the sport. As part of its online offerings, the Museum partnered with Google to pay tribute to the pioneering women of a sport that many times denied them access. The collaborative project gathered stories and memories about women who dared to play soccer during the period of prohibition in Brazil between 1941 and 1979. Women, Disobedience, and Resilience is one of 15 online exhibits.

https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/museu-do-futebol

Genghis Khan Virtual Exhibit

Check out the interviews above!

Thank you to artists, scholars, and experts who interviewed as part of this project:

Solongo, Tsultem Uranchimeg, Christopher Atwood, and Baja Tsegmed.

Highlighted Images from the Exhibit

Genghis Khan and the Empire He Created is a joint effort between the Global Village Museum and the Department of History at Colorado State University. The exhibit, which stems from a course – The Mongol Empire – taught in the fall of 2020 by Professor Eli Alberts, challenges the standard view of the Mongols as a purely destructive force on the world stage. While Genghis Khan did not single-handedly invent the modern world, the empire that he and his descendants established did bring a large part of the world together in novel and innovative ways. The Mongol Empire created the conditions for the movement of peoples, goods in trade, and the exchange of knowledge on a grander scale than the world had ever seen. In the words of Thomas Allsen: “…the Mongols were the prime movers in this exchange…”

To highlight the different aspects of the Mongol Empire – from the rise of Temujin (the man who would come to be known as Genghis Khan) to the emergence and ultimate fragmentation and collapse of the empire – Dr. Alberts divided the class into five teams, each focusing on a different theme as follows:

Family Competition and Succession
Diplomacy and Governance
War and Military Structure
Trade and Exchange
Religion and Ideology

While all of these themes are interrelated, dividing the students’ efforts allowed them to paint a more comprehensive picture of the complexity of the Mongol Empire. The students and Dr. Alberts hope you will explore each of the Story Maps and make your own connections. What are the links between one theme and another? How did religion, diplomacy, and the military function in the various Mongol governments, from China to Persia and Eastern Europe? How did family competitions escalate into full-scale wars?