Tag: museums
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Reimagining the Museum Tour
An article in today’s New York Times looks at how companies like Museum Hack are presenting the museum experience in new (and sometimes irreverent) ways. Lead by informed and lively guides (many are performers), Museum Hack offers tours in New York, LA, Chicago, and a growing number of other major US cities. Offerings such as…
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Artstor announces three major releases in material culture and Anthropology
Artstor has just released more than 170,000 new images in Anthropology from three major institutions: Réunion des Musées Nationaux and Art Resource are contributing nearly 1,400 images of works from the Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia has released approximately 75,000 images of art and cultural…
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New Artstor resource: 36,000 images from the Center for Creative Photography
The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona has contributed nearly 36,000 images to the Artstor Digital Library. The Center is recognized as one of the world’s finest academic art museums and study centers for the history of photography. The Center opened in 1975 with the archives of five living master photographers —…