Taking the time to sketch your belongings can help capture moments and memories. By Kate Bingaman-Burt Find an old receipt in your wallet. Feel that thin paper on your fingers, and look at the inky ...

Drawing an object and naming it engages the brain in similar ways. The finding demonstrates the importance of the visual processing system for producing drawings of an object. Drawing an object and ...

This class will concentrate on the structure and attributes of value (light and shadow) in relation to general subjects both observed and imagined. Practice in the application of value in a wide range ...

If you frequent the object groups of the National Museum of American History online, you may have noticed a recent addition (group link at end of post). These objects look like a cross between ...

Diego Cusano, also known as “Fantasy Researcher”, is an Italy-based artist who reimagines various everyday objects by adding a playful twist.

Author Jordan Kauffman documents an important moment in recent history when architecture reasserted its cultural status through the showcasing of particular drawings. The episode begins in 1972 with ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. When the Scheutz difference engine ...

The Rev. Dr. William Scoresby 1789 to 1857. Like his father he rose to be captain of a whaling ship and was for some 30 years a successful whaler. While in the Arctic regions he surveyed the coasts of ...

Anthropologist Nancy Munn studied the Warlpiri people from 1956 to 1958. Now, with the repatriation of her collection to Australia, a younger generation is reunited with its ancestral heritage A group ...