A grant of $484,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will allow the Program in Museums and Society at The Johns Hopkins University to expand both its course offerings and its staff. With support from the grant, four new courses taught by curators at three Baltimore museums will be added to the roster of the […]
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The Wandering Lives of Museum Objects
Elizabeth Rodini and Walters Art Museum postdoctoral fellow Ben Tilghman helped students research the “back stories” of objects in the Walters. Read the article in Arts & Sciences Magazine.
Course Blog: Critical Issues in Art Conservation
The current course “Critical Issues in Art Conservation,” taught by Sanchita Balachandran, has been maintaining a blog all semester. Students have contributed posts and comments on diverse topics, from the benefits and risks of art restoration, to the use of imaging technology to uncover knowledge about original works of art, to the consequences of mistakes […]
A Treasure Comes Home
Sonneborn Collection of Judaica to be used for research and teaching. Read the article in the JHU Gazette.