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  • International Museum Day (18 May)

    From Ross Clark@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 21 23:13:25 2024
    "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/CentreForNorwegianLanguageAndLiterature

    local focus - Canadian Language Museum, Toronto - nice grounds!
    https://languagemuseum.ca/
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Language_Museum

    proposed, 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_Language

    and, finally, a vast list of them:
    https://www.nynorsk.no/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/814-20180314-Language-museums-OG.pdf

    Anybody visited (or been visited by) any of these?

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