By bluerasberry on 2019-08-30
The 2019 Wikimania reception was Sunday 18 August in the Nordic Museum. The theme was Nordic Culture and the conference organizers had prepared for us to have a traditional blot, or animal sacrifice, in the lobby of the museum. The organizers announced none of this in advance. I only came to realize what was happening […]
Posted in animal, festival, museum, religion, Stockholm | Tagged blood, vegan, Wikimania
By bluerasberry on 2018-10-28
On Friday of WikiConference North America in Columbus we had “cultural crawl” day, which is a wiki conference tradition of going to any specialized knowledge center near the conference like a STEM organization, museum, university collection, or whatever is a source of information for developing Wikipedia. I went to the Thurber House, which is a […]
Posted in museum, other | Tagged tour, WikiConference
By bluerasberry on 2018-07-31
On Sunday 15 July Fabian and I visited the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town. After purchasing an admission ticket at the entrance we walked through through about 20 rooms to visit every gallery in this medium-sized museum. There was a mix of permanent and special exhibits in a variety of galleries. The […]
Posted in art, museum, South Africa, tour | Tagged discrimination
By bluerasberry on 2018-07-27
The Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg has a global contemporary museum design to convey the most objective information without making demands that visitors work hard to understand. It was an easy museum to visit in terms of how much I had to think to be able to understand the exhibits. For anyone who wants the museum […]
Posted in museum, South Africa, tour | Tagged discrimination
By bluerasberry on 2018-07-26
On Tuesday 10 July 2018 Fabian and I joined a tour group which advertised trips to Soweto. The tour included a drive around Soweto and and explanation but what I really wanted was the walking tour of the place that was a slum, or shanty town, ghetto, or favela. Soweto has a long history but […]
Posted in museum, rights, South Africa, tour | Tagged death, discrimination
By bluerasberry on 2016-07-02
On Wednesday 15 June we went to Venice. Venice is a city of waterways, but it is also a regular boring city on the water. All tourists go to the island part of Venice, but there is another part of Venice on the Italian mainland. I learned this because there is a trainstop there. I […]
Posted in Italy, museum, tour | Tagged Venice
By bluerasberry on 2016-07-02
On 10 June when we arrived at our apartment in Florence our host presented us with a map and some visiting suggestions. Among other things, he recommended that he have dinner at Santo Spirito, which is a plaza where people hang out at night and there are also restaurants there. We decided to go there […]
Posted in Italy, museum, tour | Tagged Florence
By bluerasberry on 2016-07-02
On the evening of Thursday 3 June Fabian and I began a vacation to Italy. Wikimania is in Northern Italy later in the month, so I had planned to go to Italy for that. Both of us arranged our work for a pause and talked about what we wanted to do, and we agreed that […]
Posted in Italy, museum, tour | Tagged Rome
By bluerasberry on 2015-01-03
I had a peaceful holiday staying in New York. I miss my Seattle friends but the time to visit there is summer, not now, and I had fun with Fabian. On Wednesday 31 December Fabian took me to a party in Bushwick. It was in an abandoned building in a dirty part of one of […]
Posted in museum, New York City | Tagged holiday
By bluerasberry on 2014-11-21
Earlier this year the National Museum of American History took in some artifacts related to LGBT history. I saw the news when it was reported, and was glad for that, but also surprised that this needed announcing or that the idea was new. On Tuesday 18 November I visited the museum with Dorothy and we […]
Posted in DC, gay stuff, museum, research, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged Dorothy Howard, Smithsonian