by Pavek Museum | Apr 17, 2026 | Curator’s Corner
Ground control to Pavek Museum, can you hear me? To commemorate the launching of Artemis II and the start of a new moon mission by NASA, we decided to write about the history of electronic communication in space. Did you know that the start of the space race was...
by Pavek Museum | Mar 20, 2026 | Curator’s Corner
Edwin Howard Armstrong was born December 18th, 1890, in a working class neighborhood of New York City. Chelsea, famous for being near Hell’s Kitchen and the meat packing district, was dominated by Irish immigrants during this period. Edwin was the eldest of three...
by Pavek Museum | Dec 4, 2025 | Curator’s Corner
When Michael W. Davidson settled into his workday at Florida State University’s Optical Microscope Laboratory in the late 1990s, his view typically involved crystalline images of DNA structures and hormone molecules – complex, elegant, and purely scientific. But...
by Pavek Museum | Jul 28, 2025 | Curator’s Corner
There’s a new, exciting sci-fi drama on Netflix that has captured the imagination of this Curator: The Eternaut. First created by Argentine comic book writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld and illustrator Francisco Solano López, The Eternaut is a deep story with important...
by Pavek Museum | May 29, 2025 | Curator’s Corner
In 1981, Adam Osborne, a British computer designer, announced his new product, the Osborne I. Initially, people at the West Coast Computer Fair were unimpressed. Even though it was announced as the first portable computer, it seemed bulky, and the screen was too...
