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June 11, 2013: Moving Toward a Conversation
If you've ever heard me speak at conferences you know that one of our most successful technology projects is also one of our… »June 6, 2013: The Reinstallation of the Asian and Arts of the Islamic World Galleries
If you’ve visited the second floor of the Museum recently, you may have noticed that it looks considerably more bare than… »June 5, 2013: George Grosz, Otto Dix and World War I
In my last post, I highlighted several of the many prints in the Brooklyn Museum’s collection that, like those now on view in… »May 30, 2013: German Expressionist Prints at the Brooklyn Museum
The current exhibition in the Herstory Gallery of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art features the politically… »May 7, 2013: Looking for love?
I've been at the Brooklyn Museum for about a year-and-a-half now, which is also as long as I've been a resident of our fair… »
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Category Archives: Libraries & Archives
Candy Garments at Bendel’s Holiday Windows
If you want to see a fun window display go over to the Henri Bendel at 721 Fifth Avenue at 56th Street. Their designers used our Fashion Sketch collection as a source of inspiration for the creation of very delicious … Continue reading
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Connecting Cultures Through Books!
The presence of three books in the new Connecting Cultures installation gives me a welcome opportunity to talk about these key works that are in the Library collection. This is the first of a series of blogs that will discuss the … Continue reading
A Recent Donation from Camille and Luther Clark
The Brooklyn Museum Library collection has recently been enriched with the donation of several rare items of African American art given by Camille and Luther Clark. This donation is one of many in response to the Museum’s collecting initiative that … Continue reading
Project CHART at the Brooklyn Museum
The Institute of Museum and Library Services has been an important supporter of several initiatives to make the Brooklyn Museum’s collection much more accessible to a wider audience. One good example of this initiative is the M-LEAD Project which has … Continue reading
Help us pin Brooklyn to the map!
If you know and love Brooklyn we need your help to get 300+ images from our collection pinned to Historypin’s map before their launch on July 11, 2011. If we don’t get cracking, Brooklyn is going to be woefully under-represented … Continue reading
Skylar Fein and Abraham Lincoln: a look into Brooklyn’s collections
With the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War it is a good moment to look back through time and how Americans have been depicted over the years in both the objects we live with and through the popular press. … Continue reading
History Continues with the Cold War, Vietnam, and Early Apple Computer Kiosks
This is the final post in a tour through the Museum’s historical exhibition press releases, taking us up to the 1980s. If you’ve enjoyed this peek into history, you’re encouraged to visit the Museum’s Exhibitions database, where you can browse … Continue reading
Press Releases from World War II and beyond
The previous post on the Museum’s recently completed digitizing of historical exhibition press releases highlighted some excerpts from the 1920s, 30s, and early 40s. There are many interesting releases from World War II and its aftermath—so many, in fact, that … Continue reading
The 20th Century through the Museum’s Press Releases
We’ve just completed digitizing and making available on our website the hundreds of exhibition press releases the Museum has issued since the 1920s. Though it’s almost always the case that production and presentation of objects is influenced by the historical … Continue reading
Brooklyn Museum books online!
About a year ago, inspired by LACMA’s Reading Room, we started thinking about digitizing some Brooklyn Museum publications. We were excited to learn that many of the Museum’s publications had already been digitized–Google Books, Microsoft, and university digitization projects have … Continue reading
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Native America: Images from the Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives
The Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains exhibition provides us with a wonderful opportunity to showcase the Museum’s Native American collections and resources. As someone who has studied Native American art and whose Grandmother was Native American, I am very … Continue reading
Cards from the Library Catalogs – Want some?
One of the results of projects to bring our Libraries and Archives into the digital world is that we have boxes of cards—mostly typewritten or computer generated—available for the taking and ready to be transformed into a second life. Since the Library … Continue reading
Wilbour and the Stela of the Seven Years’ Famine: Part II
The first part of this story showed the American Egyptologist Charles Edwin Wilbour discovering and translating a long rock-cut text on the island of Sehel. Wilbour was very excited by the text. It described a seven year long famine in … Continue reading
Wilbour and the Stela of the Seven Years’ Famine: Part I
Wilbour’s letters to his family, kept in the Museum Archives, give a vivid picture of his travels in Egypt and the research he carried out there. Much of this work consisted of his checking earlier publications of Egyptian monuments against … Continue reading
Fashion Design and Costume History in the Library’s Collection
The fashion plates, magazines, photographs, and scrapbooks now on view in the Library display cases complement two exhibitions: Healing the Wounds of War: The Brooklyn Sanitary Fair of 1864, in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art Herstory Gallery, … Continue reading
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