Sujet : International Museum Day (18 May)
De : benlizro (at) *nospam* ihug.co.nz (Ross Clark)
Groupes : sci.langDate : 21. May 2024, 12:13:25
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"This day was created in 1946-7 by the International Council of Museums....The day has been recognized since 1977...."
OK, it's got some origins and some depth. But I'd like to know more about these subtle ontological gradations in the histories of Days. What was it like during the time when it was created, but not recognized?
But to the topic: Museums of Language!
Crystal reminds us that we visited one on 15 April -- that "House of Vigdis" in Iceland.
It seems there are others...
"largest" - Planet Word, Washington, D.C. (est.2020) - great building!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Word https://planetwordmuseum.org/"one of the smallest" - Mundolingua, Paris (opened 2013) - looks more playful
https://www.mundolingua.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundolingua"oldest in the world" - Aasen Centre, Norway - "unbroken history from 1898"
https://presentations.thebestinheritage.com/2016/CentreForNorwegianLanguageAndLiteraturelocal focus - Canadian Language Museum, Toronto - nice grounds!
https://languagemuseum.ca/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Language_Museumproposed, but fell through - London (1990s), Barcelona (2000s)
mobile - World of Languages pop-up museum, Cambridge and On the Road,
2019, curtailed by pandemic
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/worldoflanguages online - National Museum of Language - physical facility in College
Park, Maryland, 2008-2014, since then "virtual museum"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_Languageand, finally, a vast list of them:
https://www.nynorsk.no/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/814-20180314-Language-museums-OG.pdfAnybody visited (or been visited by) any of these?