Bugfest 2022 @nhmu was a success! I enjoyed the event immensely, and so did our guests! I spent the majority of the day in a kitchen with an excellent chef helping to prepare her excellent insect recipes (Who doesn’t love a little entomophagy?) to feed the hungry crowds. Trust me, she did the work, and boy were they tasty recipes; guests agreed! We also had many great vendors and presentations, live insects, and displays of pinned specimens. What a great event! Can’t wait for next year! #Science #Biology #Zoology #Utah #Nature #Insect #Insects #Entomology #Animal #Animals #AsianGiantHornet #NHMU #NaturalHistoryMuseumofUtah https://www.instagram.com/p/CfVlrz-Ob-p/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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The wonderworking Kiev-Bratsk (i.e. "Brotherhood") Icon of the Mother of God was revealed in 1654, and was originally kept in the church of Saints Boris and Gleb in the city of Vyshgorod (Kiev), and was placed in a shrine to the left of the Royal Doors on the iconostasis.
On May 10, 1662, during a war with Poland (1659–1667), the city suffered great damage from the Poles and Crimean Tatars who fought against Russia. The church of the Holy Passion-Bearers Boris and Gleb was ravaged and looted by enemy soldiers, who took all the jewels and icons, but the relics of the Saints were hidden under a crypt. By God's Providence, the wonderworking Icon of the Mother of God was preserved.
At the risk of their lives, some devout Christians rescued the Icon of the Mother of God from the unclean hands of those who had stolen it. Since they could not hide the Icon, they had to consign it to the Dnieper River, praying that God's will would be done. To their amazement, the Icon did not sink but floated upright down the river.
Leaving Vyshgorod, the Tatars began to cross the Dnieper, but they were drowned during a storm. Only one of them escaped by clinging to the Icon of the Mother of God as though it were a raft. The river carried the holy Icon to the bank of the Podil in Kiev, where it stopped before the Bratsk Monastery. The Tatar was afraid of drowning, and cried desperately for help. A boat was sent from the Monastery, into which the monks received the Icon and the Tatar.
The Tatar, whose life was spared by God, believed in Jesus Christ and was baptized. The Icon was placed in the wooden church of Saints Boris and Gleb, where it remained for a long time. An inventory of the church property in the Kiev-Bratsk Monastery, compiled in 1807, describes the miraculous Icon.
In 1919, the Bratsk Monastery was closed, and the Kiev-Bratsk Icon of the Mother of God was considered lost. For a long time, the lack of information about the shrines of the Monastery until the 90s of the XX century was perceived as confirmation that the Icon was lost. In recent years, however, studies have shown that the Icon is one of Monastery's five most valuable icons. It was transferred to the Kiev Caves Lavra in 1926.
In 1948, this group of icons was first recorded in the ledger of the National Art Museum of Ukraine (NHMU) with a note saying their fate before they came to the museum was unknown. The reacquisition of the Kiev-Bratsk Icon occurred in the early 2000s, when employees of the NHMU established a connection between these monuments and the Bratsk Monastery.
Currently, the Kiev-Bratsk Icon is in the collection of NHMU. It's reacquisition is regarded as confirmation of the Icon's miraculous qualities.
There is an exact copy of the Icon, which is located in the Kievan Monastery of the Protection of the Mother of God.
The Kiev-Bratsk Icon of the Mother of God is commemorated on September 6, May 10, and June 2, and on Saturday of the Fifth Week of Great Lent.
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just misread “el gato” as “eli vanto” nhmu
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[Talk] Looking Beyond the Temples: The People of Angkor
Readers in Salt Lake City may be interested in this lecture by Alison Carter on March 21, in conjunction with the Angkor exhibition and the Natural History Museum of Utah. #angkor #cambodia #lecture
Readers in Salt Lake City may be interested in this lecture by Alison Carter on March 21, in conjunction with the Angkor exhibition and the Natural History Museum of Utah.
Dr. Alison Carter is an anthropological archaeologist and assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon. She will present “Looking Beyond the Temples: The People of Angkor.” at 7 p.m. on March 21 at NHMU. Dr.…
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Had a blast visiting the Natural History Museum of Utah for DinoFest 2019! Hanging with old friends, meeting some new ones, hobnobbing with some holotypes ... I love dinosaurs, and I love dino people!
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The fossil arthropod Beckwithia typa, from the Weeks Formation on Utah, (formerly) on display @nhmu Please excuse the rough photos. (Glass case!) #Paleontology #Science #SciComm #Fossil #Fossils #Geology #Biology #Zoology #NHMU #NaturalHistoryMuseumofUtah #Arthropod https://www.instagram.com/p/CVMl-StAE8B/?utm_medium=tumblr
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Went to the amazing Egypt exhibit @nhmu where there was beautiful ancient art. Here is the Seti relief sculpture and a mummified cat. It is so wonderful to see so many animals and animal like creatures in ancient art. Please follow me for more of my animal artwork. #egypt #egyptiancat #egyptology #egyptian #ancientegypt #ancientart #egyptlovers #nhmu #seti #mummy #mummies #mummification #mummified #egyptianmuseum #ancientanimalart #mummifiedcat #chariot #horsechariot #egyptianart https://www.instagram.com/p/CXjICy9FAoZ/?utm_medium=tumblr
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