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On View: Amulet of Rabbit

Living persons wore only one or a few amulets at a time, but mummies usually bear many amulets. The Ma’at amulet (no. 2) and heart sca...

Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.

    On View: Soul in Bondage

    In this brooding Symbolist subject titled Soul in Bondage, the American expatriate Elihu Vedder brought together his key interests in ideali...

     

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    Crossposting Collection Assets
    April 12, 2010 12:36pm
    Collection assets are being posted to Wikimedia Commons and the Internet Archive automatically.  read more...
    Gallery Tag!
    March 25, 2010 12:35pm
    A game for playing tag within the galleries is launched on the mobile site.  read more...
    Mobile Web
    March 24, 2010 12:33pm
    Mobile website launched including an overhaul for BklynMuse.  read more...
    Floodgates Open
    March 11, 2010 12:30pm
    Policy change to release records online first, then vet information later. Added "record completeness meter" to collection records. Release of study images. Overhauled comments area.  read more...
    Collection Labs
    February 23, 2010 12:29pm
    Released a labs area for the collection online in order to play and experiment with data.  read more...
    Object Rights Status
    January 12, 2010 12:27pm
    Rights status of objects are released including identifying which fall under "no known copyright" and others released under a Creative Commons license.  read more...
    Data Entry
    December 14, 2009 12:25pm
    Object labels, archival press releases, exhibition didactics and objects in exhibitions go online.  read more...
    BklynMuse
    August 26, 2009 12:22pm
    Web-based mobile application released that functions as a people-powered recommendation system for use in the galleries.   read more...
    Freeze Tag!
    May 21, 2009 12:17pm
    New tagging game released allowing Posse members the ability to delete tags and clean up tagging anomalies.   read more...
    Tag! You're It! Modifications
    May 1, 2009 12:14pm
    Modifications made to Tag! You're It! to allow for greater customization as Posse members tag our collection.  read more...
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