Natural Histories: 500 Years of Rare Scientific Illustrations from the American Museum of Natural History Archives
Natural Histories: Extraordinary Rare Book Selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library
What Medical Students Can Learn From Art Museums
There's more to being a doctor than diagnosing symptoms. And that's where art comes in.
Can You Name These Famous Paintings In History?
There's 13 of them. Do you think you can name them all? Take the quiz and let us know how well you do!
How The Arts = Happiness
Step inside any art museum, say MoMA or the Wadsworth, and the regions of your brain associated with pleasure, memory, emotion, and vision immediately light up upon viewing a painting, according to…
How To Decorate With Antiques (Without Turning Your Home Into A Museum)
How to Get Started with Illustration (Part 1)
Can I Ramble On Illustration?
Yes I can! It probably stems from my childhood days, but I have always been drawn to a good illustration. Have you thought lately about usin...
How to Animate an Illustration in Adobe Photoshop
Combine colorful illustrations and looping animations.
What Is Graphic Design’s Place in an Art Museum?
We don’t always realize it, but graphic design saturates every part of our lives. It informs the decisions we make as consumers and serves as a structure for how we understand and engage with our environment—whether through navigating the labyrinth of subway lines via color-coded route maps or learn
An Artist's Guide to Archiving: Free eGuide Download
A practical guide on how to catalog your artworks and preserve your artistic legacy.
How to Display Rare Books
One of the joys of having a rare book collection is getting a chance to look at it, yet some ways of displaying your books are better than others.
Scientific Illustration: More than Pretty Pictures
Scientific illustration is more than just pretty pictures — a point made quite clearly in my own work at the Conservancy’s Silver Creek Preserve, as we tried to convey restoration plans to th…
Museum uses current technology to conserve ancient artifacts
The graceful ceramic pedestal was coated with a thin layer of dirt, some of it perhaps lodged in the artifact's clay pores for thousands of years.
Why All Major Museums Should Be Free
Art shouldn't only be for those who can afford to see it.
A Practical Guide to the New, Improved Museum of Modern Art
47,000 additional square-feet ... and no room to move
How to Care for Rare Books
Rare books deserve and require exceptional care. If cared for appropriately, rare books can provide their owners with a prominent collection that will contin...
Hiring Tips to Create Value and Inclusion for all Disciplines in Museums
There are qualified and diverse candidates out there who may not be aware that museums are a sustainable career option for them—it’s our job as a field to recruit and retain this virtually untapped…
How do art museums decide what great works should be fridge magnets?
The complicated relationship between art and commerce has a home in the museum gift shop.
How a Trip to the Art Museum Became a Vision for Fresh Expressions
I have two teenage daughters. One loves art museums. She is an artist herself, and loves the experience of peering into paintings and sculptures on display. She feels things the artist is hoping she would feel, she sees details that the artist has painstakingly worked to reveal, she loses herself in pieces that take her …
How Do We Make The Supernatural Become Natural?
When we read stories or see art from the ancient world or the middle ages, it often looks fantastical. Mythical beasts, demons, and angels are everywhere. Our tendency when seeing such representations of the world is to smile and think to ourselves, “How far we’ve come since then!”
