Cultural Heritage Imaging

06/04/2026

Ever wonder how Pastels are made? Check this out:

For over 300 years, La Maison du Pastel has handcrafted pastels used by artists like Degas. We visited its secret workshop in the French countryside.

06/01/2026

Wow! Check out this facility with tens of thousands of shelves of items, and the ability to retrieve most requests within a single day!

04/22/2026

Thank you Mellon Foundation for funding this incredible project.

“It is only in the telling of our whole story, not as we wish it to be, but as it was, that our future can be made better than our past.”

04/22/2026

For Earth Day - a gift article from the Atlantic with eerily beautiful photos of nature taking things back...

On Earth Day, I wanted to share images of the incredible resilience of nature: the many ways that plants, animals, and natural processes reclaim abandoned human places and find ways to thrive.

04/07/2026

Amazing photos from Artemis II of the far side of the Moon. This presentation from the NY Times is really well done (Gift article - no subs required)

See the photos taken by the Artemis II astronauts during their moon flyby.

04/01/2026

Ever thought about how to document a manuscript with a bone cover? Check it out!

This post provides a behind-the-scenes look at digitizing rare materials at the Library of Congress through the experiences of staff working to image four Batak manuscripts.

03/10/2026

Yet another way this man was a horrible, selfish, harmful human being...

The Justice Department files show Epstein and his employees discussing multiple times moving petroglyphs at the ranch.

01/28/2026

Wow! What an amazing find...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were making tools even earlier than archaeologists thought.

01/27/2026

Thank you MacArthur Foundation! There is so much loss of funding along with direct attacks on humanities and especially history programming. This is a bright spot.

MacArthur Foundation awards $10 million to bolster culture, humanities. Awarded in response to recent assaults on academic freedom and efforts to erase cultural history, the grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation include $350,000 to Cave Canem, $500,000 to the National Junetee...

12/19/2025

Good behind the scene's article - with some embedded videos.

Ever wonder how physical media is preserved? Go behind the scenes with Getty conservator Jonathan to see how he turns analog into digital for future generations:
https://www.getty.edu/news/saving-lost-feminist-video-letters/