Tag: Museums
Alan Turing’s school report reveals little of his genius
Items from codebreaker’s life and death go on display at Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. In 1929, a teenager’s end-of-term report noted that his English reading was weak, his French prose was very weak, his essays grandiose beyond his abilities, and his mathematical promise undermined by his untidy work. The report gave few clues that […]
From the attic to the Smithsonian: black history museum is full of ‘found’ items
When the National Museum of African and African American History and Culture opens in September it will house more than 35,000 artifacts, many of which were donated from the public or found in attics, basements and closets. One morning in 2009, Lonnie G Bunch III took a phone call from Philadelphia historian Charles Leroy Blockson. […]