About
About Curio Shelf
Curio Shelf keeps short notes on objects that reward a second look: toys, rooms, vehicles, pottery and tools.
Independent notes. This site is not the Dinosaurs and Robots blog that was published at this address before, and it has no tie to that blog or to the people who wrote it.What this site is
Each page takes one object and writes down a handful of facts about it. The facts come from museums, libraries, a university press, a public broadcaster, a city department and a patent, and every page links the record it used. Where a page says what used to stand at its address, that comes from public web archives.
What this site is not
For some years this address belonged to a blog about design, toys and curiosities. This site is not the Dinosaurs and Robots blog. It was started later by someone else, it does not continue that blog, and it does not speak for the people who wrote it. No old post, photo or byline has been copied. The pages here are new texts on some of the same subjects.
The site is also not connected to the museums, libraries, makers and artists it mentions. Names of exhibitions, works and products are used only to say what a note is about.
How the notes are checked
A fact goes on a page only when the linked source states it. Nothing is added from memory or from the old blog. If a subject cannot be covered that way, it gets no page.