The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access Initiative expands with three-dimensional renderings of significant pieces—most of which are free to download.

History isn’t just written in books — it’s buried in the artifacts we’ve lost. Across centuries, priceless treasures, sacred relics, and scientific wonders have vanished without a trace, swallowed by ...

We often learn about the past visually — through oil paintings and sepia photographs, books and buildings, artifacts displayed behind glass. And sometimes we get to touch historical objects or listen ...

An umbrella from early 20 th century Japan. A wine glass from Belgium, circa 1825. Three teapots: one from early 20 th century China, one from late 19 th century England and one from late 19 th ...

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“I love cross-collecting,” Gho said, pointing at di Bicci’s Tobias and Archangel Raphael with Saints (ca. 1475). “I would love to have a collection in which Old Masters are having a dialogue with ...

Using the Mbari architecture of the Owerri-Igbo of eastern Nigeria as a starting point, this article addresses the different forms and meaning the objects take on in different historical periods and ...

Type into your search engine the words “Sarasota County History Center Archives Catalog,” and you’ll get more than 15,000 results. Among all the items the archives houses are hundreds of documents ...

While hundreds of Texans gathered in November to celebrate the much-anticipated reopening of the Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site after a two-year, $54 million renovation, Amanda Cagle was ...

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