Medieval History
Humans have, in general, done a decent job of preserving relics of the past in museums. But there is always room for improvement--especially when it comes to managing fragile, ancient works of art. A new indoor weather forecasting system from IBM may help.
IBM announced this week that it is teaming up with the Metropolitan Museum of Art to test a wireless environmental sensor network--dubbed, unsexily, the Low-Power Mote--in the museum's Cloisters, a section that holds 3,000 works of art from medieval Europe. The works, which include paintings, tapestries, and illuminated manuscripts, date from the 12th through the 15th century.
The art is already tightly guarded with controlled climates and sealed cases, but IBM is ramping up the protection even more with 100 Low-Power Mote sensors placed throughout the Cloisters.
Click here to read this article from Fast Company
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Medieval History
The Met Teams With IBM To Preserve Art, Avoid Going Medieval On Assets
Humans have, in general, done a decent job of preserving relics of the past in museums. But there is always room for improvement--especially when it comes to managing fragile, ancient works of art. A new indoor weather forecasting system from IBM may help.
IBM announced this week that it is teaming up with the Metropolitan Museum of Art to test a wireless environmental sensor network--dubbed, unsexily, the Low-Power Mote--in the museum's Cloisters, a section that holds 3,000 works of art from medieval Europe. The works, which include paintings, tapestries, and illuminated manuscripts, date from the 12th through the 15th century.
The art is already tightly guarded with controlled climates and sealed cases, but IBM is ramping up the protection even more with 100 Low-Power Mote sensors placed throughout the Cloisters.
Click here to read this article from Fast Company
- Byzantium And Islam: Age Of Transition ? Exhibition At The Met
Nearly 300 works of art are now on display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art to mark how the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean underwent important changes between the seventh and ninth centuries. Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition represents the...
- Introducing Children To Medieval Art
Inside a dark room in the Cloisters, 10 small children crowded around tapestries of men hunting unicorns. Their instructor, Britt Eilhardt, led them in a discussion of dogs, unicorns and why the Cloisters has a plant that is also in the Harry Potter books....
- Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts On Display At The Met
Two important medieval Hebrew manuscripts?a Mishneh Torah made between 1300 and 1400 in Germany and an illuminated leaf from a prayer book made in Austria around 1360?are on display in New York City at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters,...
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