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Los Angeles Times: In first major ufology acquisition, Huntington puts Integratron’s eccentric history on display. “The collection, announced by the museum Tuesday, is deep and vast, with materials dating from the 1910s through the 1990s. It includes an architectural model and original blueprints of the Integratron, as well as nearly 630 photographs, negatives and slides, more than 250 audio […]

Los Angeles Times: In first major ufology acquisition, Huntington puts Integratron’s eccentric history on display. “The collection, announced by the museum Tuesday, is deep and vast, with materials dating from the 1910s through the 1990s. It includes an architectural model and original blueprints of the Integratron, as well as nearly 630 photographs, negatives and slides, more than 250 audio […]

Los Angeles Times: In first major ufology acquisition, Huntington puts Integratron’s eccentric history on display. “The collection, announced by the museum Tuesday, is deep and vast, with materials dating from the 1910s through the 1990s. It includes an architectural model and original blueprints of the Integratron, as well as nearly 630 photographs, negatives and slides, more than 250 audio […]

Los Angeles Times: In first major ufology acquisition, Huntington puts Integratron’s eccentric history on display. “The collection, announced by the museum Tuesday, is deep and vast, with materials dating from the 1910s through the 1990s. It includes an architectural model and original blueprints of the Integratron, as well as nearly 630 photographs, negatives and slides, more than 250 audio […]

Los Angeles Times: In first major ufology acquisition, Huntington puts Integratron’s eccentric history on display. “The collection, announced by the museum Tuesday, is deep and vast, with materials dating from the 1910s through the 1990s. It includes an architectural model and original blueprints of the Integratron, as well as nearly 630 photographs, negatives and slides, more than 250 audio […]

From Zamość Museum and machine-translated from Polish: We have completed the project of digitizing the collections of the Zamość Museum in cooperation with the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. “Recently, the Zamość Museum hosted specialists from the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews – Monika Bondarew and Iwo Książek – who supported the digitization of the […]

Hagley Museum: Hagley Acquires Business Records of New York City Tailor. “Hagley Library recently acquired the Kozinn + Sons Merchant Tailors records, now open for research thanks to archival processing intern Darby Ronning. For over a century, Kozinn + Sons was a New York City–based tailored clothing company led by three generations of the Kozinn family. Kozinn FamilyFounded in 1913 as the […]

Spectrum News: Speed Art Museum begins repatriation of 24 Native American cultural items. “The Speed Art Museum is returning 24 cultural items to the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes as part of a federal repatriation process under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.”

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: Despite years of confiscations, the Met still holds hundreds of pieces linked to alleged trafficking and looting figures. “Even after authorities seized more than $95 million worth of antiquities from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in recent years, the institution still holds hundreds more pieces linked to alleged looting and […]

Municipal Dreams: A Good Home Needed Urgently for One of the Most Significant Libraries of Housing and Planning in the Country. “The trustees of the Octavia Hill Birthplace Museum are disposing of its Harry Simpson Memorial Library in September, next month. The collection comprises the largest discrete library dedicated to housing and planning. The museum is located in Wisbech in the north of […]

National Building Museum: Collections Highlight: Digitizing the Lautman Collection. “In 2007, the National Building Museum received [Robert C.] Lautman’s business archive of architectural photography materials, estimated at over 70,000 objects. Today, Museum staff are working to organize, catalog, rehouse, and digitize the collection to improve public access and ensure its long-term […]

Raclin Murphy Museum of Art: Raclin Murphy Museum of Art launches a new free Digital Guide to the Museum’s collections. “The Raclin Murphy Museum of Art is delighted to launch a new digital guide in partnership with Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app…. With origins dating to 1875, the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art (formerly Snite Museum of Art) is one of the oldest and most […]

Museums Association: National Library of Wales launches Culture and Climate Cymru resource. “The National Library of Wales has launched Culture and Climate Cymru, a new website and networking platform to help Wales’s culture and heritage sector respond to the climate crisis.”

Allegheny College: Art Digitization Project Sends Students on an Exploration of the Erie Art Museum’s History. “Two Allegheny College students spent the summer in Erie, but forwent Presque Isle views for a dive into an art collection over 8,000 works deep. Through June and July, Angelee Bawek ’27 and Owen Ranus ’27 conducted a community-based research project digitizing works at the Erie […]

Arab News: Mini op-ed: Middle East museums are compelling platforms for dialogue. “The region’s most ambitious museums did not inherit the Louvre model. They were built in the age of the smartphone, algorithmic content, and generative technologies. As a result, they have quietly resisted assuming the role of their older counterparts. Rather than asserting their authority over visitors, they […]

Ars Technica: With help from data, art museums are reframing the visitor experience. “Museums take this educational role seriously, and many institutions understand the need to sustain and broaden their appeal…. To aid this transition, museums and other cultural institutions are increasingly using data to inform decisions about how to present the works they house.”

The Herald (Scotland): Glasgow Life and Creative Scotland join forces on arts centre archive. “Last-ditch talks are underway to secure the future of a vast cultural collection spanning half a century which charts the history of two of Glasgow’s best-known arts institutions. The Scottish Government’s arts agency is in talks with Glasgow Life, which runs museums, galleries and cultural venues […]

New York Times: Trump Orders Warnings Placed at ‘Inaccurate’ Smithsonian History Museum. This link goes to a gift article. “President Trump on Friday ordered warning signs and exhibits installed outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History to alert the public that the museum does not, in his view, accurately reflect American history.”

VT Digger: At Vermont’s Estey Organ Museum, many donations total $10. Then came one so big, it paid off the mortgage.. “Volunteers at this town’s Estey Organ Museum are used to a symphony of sounds at the former home of the world’s largest manufacturer of pump and pipe instruments….But everybody went silent when peers at the local historical society, having recently banked several […]

MIT Museum: MIT Museum Announces Landmark Acquisition of Architect I. M. Pei’s Archive. “The I. M. Pei archive includes approximately 1,500 rolls of architectural drawings, 50 architectural models, and 1,000 linear feet of manuscripts and other archives spanning more than sixty projects across Pei’s decades-long career. With this gift, the MIT Museum will become the leading steward and […]

Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Returns Two Sculptures to the Kingdom of Cambodia. “The repatriation follows new information that emerged through the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s ongoing investigations into art dealer Doris Weiner, which helped determine the works should be returned to Cambodia.”

KNSI: The controversies surrounding the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. “In case you haven’t heard the very bully news, the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library—which opens on July 4 in the tiny town of Medora, North Dakota—is a stunning architectural, archival, and multimedia achievement, a world-class memorial to a president who became the first great champion of […]

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Launches Access O’Keeffe, a Groundbreaking Digital Catalogue Raisonné. “Access O’Keeffe provides an accessible, dynamic platform to explore the inspiring life and art of Georgia O’Keeffe as a user-friendly, searchable website with high-resolution images, visual descriptions, exhibition histories, archival materials, and research data […]

Getty: Getty, LACMA, MOCA, Hammer Museum, and Hauser & Wirth Announce Collective Commitment to Climate Action. “A consortium of arts institutions announced today their joint commitment to climate action through implementing the Bizot Green Protocol, a set of recommendations that offer environmentally sustainable approaches for the long-term care of collections.”

Getty: Getty, LACMA, MOCA, Hammer Museum, and Hauser & Wirth Announce Collective Commitment to Climate Action. “A consortium of arts institutions announced today their joint commitment to climate action through implementing the Bizot Green Protocol, a set of recommendations that offer environmentally sustainable approaches for the long-term care of collections.”

Getty: Getty, LACMA, MOCA, Hammer Museum, and Hauser & Wirth Announce Collective Commitment to Climate Action. “A consortium of arts institutions announced today their joint commitment to climate action through implementing the Bizot Green Protocol, a set of recommendations that offer environmentally sustainable approaches for the long-term care of collections.”

Getty: Getty, LACMA, MOCA, Hammer Museum, and Hauser & Wirth Announce Collective Commitment to Climate Action. “A consortium of arts institutions announced today their joint commitment to climate action through implementing the Bizot Green Protocol, a set of recommendations that offer environmentally sustainable approaches for the long-term care of collections.”

Getty: Getty, LACMA, MOCA, Hammer Museum, and Hauser & Wirth Announce Collective Commitment to Climate Action. “A consortium of arts institutions announced today their joint commitment to climate action through implementing the Bizot Green Protocol, a set of recommendations that offer environmentally sustainable approaches for the long-term care of collections.”