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Working on an exhibition requires an immense amount of knowledge and a thorough understanding of the subject matter. . .and the ability to boil all of that down into labels that visitors can read in thirty seconds or less. This leaves much unsaid - and unread. Luckily, there are blogs to provide readers with information that, while fascinating, simply could not fit on a label. This blog also features articles related to our Education programs, the Museum Store, the Museum's vast collections, and more.
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A Stink in West Pasadena
For many in West Pasadena, a reason to celebrate arrived a few days before the Fourth of July in 1899. Shortly after 9 p.m. on June …
Beaches: Watercolors and Sketches by Eva Fenyes
Several years ago, Collections staff posted a progressive exhibit of beach art using watercolors and sketches by Eva Scott Fenyes (1849-1930) on the Museum’s Facebook …
Beautiful Ephemera: Chalk Festival Street Painting
I am an artist, and I know that making art, while enriching and enlivening, can also be an intensely solitary process. Think of a painter …
Happy Birthday Pasadena’s Centenarian Project
One woman fled the Bolshevik Revolution with her family as a child, only to find herself in flight again in 1934 escaping brutal persecution in …
The Pasadena Cycleway
Pasadena historian Henry Markham Page wrote that “ … there was nothing like it in the United States – or probably anywhere else for that …
The Art of Getting There: Railroad Inspired Artistry
Steve Crise, co-curator of the exhibition The Art of Getting There: Railroad Inspired Artistry (on view March 29 – August 13, 2017) describes a selection …
Eva Fenyes’ Algerian Court
On the northwest corner of Orange Grove Avenue and Ellis Street in Pasadena, California, there once stood a mansion, exotic in style and unique to …
Colonel Green in the Archives
Not Colonel Mustard in the Library with a Candlestick Colonel Green is just one of the many people I’ve “met” at Pasadena Museum of …
Railroad Edition of the Collections Quarterly
Archives Feature – Trolleys in Pasadena Since a horse drawn wagon carried the first electric interurban trolley car up Fair Oaks Avenue into Pasadena in …
Grayson Arts
Grayson Arts, the firm which created artisan ceramics for the bath and home, was founded by husband and wife team John “Gail” and Helen Lee …
