Tag: museums
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Single web portal launched for recovery of Nazi-looted art
An agreement was signed today by several organizations devoted to the research and recovery of art and artifacts looted by the Nazis. Records and documents will be available via a single web portal, providing access to the National Archives of the United Kingdom, the US National Archives and Records Administration, Germany’s Bundesarchiv, and the Commission…
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Latest additions to ARTstor
ARTstor has added these collections to the Digital Library: Fowler Museum, UCLA: 717 images from the permanent collection, with a focus on Africa Richard F. Brush Art Gallery (St. Lawrence University): 196 images of African textiles, contemporary Inuit prints and drawings, and Vietnam War-era photography Colby College Museum: 2,463 images from the permanent collection, especially…
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Talk: David Wilson (Museum of Jurassic Technology) on the Russian Space Program
David Wilson, founder of the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles (a wunderkamer-like museum), will give a talk at UCSB entitled “Nikolai Federov, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and the Roots of the Russian Space Program.” This story is told partly through live narration of a poetic documentary made by the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Russia,…