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July 21, 2017

200+ Posters From the Golden Age of Graphic Design Are Now Free to Download

Today, more and more cultural institutions have started to offer free art resources to the public through online archives. From high-quality reproductions of antique photographs to museum-approved art books, these complimentary materials promote and exhibit the endless possibilities of Internet learning. Recently, the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) has opted to contribute to this downloadable, digitized phenomenon with Art of the Poster 1880-1918, a curated collection of posters from the “Golden Age” of graphic design.

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July 19, 2017

Free Digital Archive Makes Over 50 Million Pieces of European Art Available Online

With the goal to transform the world through culture, the Europeana Collections is a massive digital archive with the objective...

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July 18, 2017

Illustrated Periodic Table Shows How Elements Are Part of Everyday Life

Anyone who ever sat through a high school chemistry class knows how frustrating it can be to tackle the periodic...

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July 17, 2017

Brooklyn Academy of Music Makes 70,000 Pieces of Theater History Available Online

For over 150 years, the Brooklyn Academy of Music has been home to cutting-edge performing arts. And now the multi-purpose urban arts center has placed more than 70,000 objects online as part of its new digital archive. Capturing more than a century of theatrical photographs, playbills, video, and ephemera, the new archive is a culture lover's paradise.

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July 15, 2017

Metropolitan Museum of Art Now Offers Over 1,600 Free Art Books Online

In need of some summer reading? If so, look no further than the Metropolitan Museum of Art's website.

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July 14, 2017

Over 100 Museums Invite You to “Color Their Collections” with Free Adult Coloring Books

The adult coloring craze isn’t just a passing fad.

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July 13, 2017

Guggenheim Releases More Than 1,700 Masterful Works of Modern Art Online

Spread across four venues in New York, Venice, Bilbao, and Abu Dhabi, the Guggenheim's permanent collection contains more than 7,000 pieces of modern art, including masterpieces by Picasso, Modigliani, and Pollock. And now, you can view over 1,700 artworks by more than 625 different artists from the New York, Venice, and Bilbao Guggenheim museums online.

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July 11, 2017

Over 4,300 Vintage Photos From the Invasion of Normandy Are Available Online

Launched on June 6 with D-Day, the Normandy Invasion lasted throughout the summer of 1944, as Allied troops liberated all...

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July 6, 2017

Smithsonian’s Design Museum Lets You Search Its 200,000+ Collection by Crayon Color

As the only American museum dedicated to historical and contemporary design, New York City's Cooper Hewitt Museum is taking an...

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July 1, 2017

Metropolitan Museum of Art Makes Over 140,000 Art Images Available Online

As more and more cultural institutions are placing their collections online, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is leading the charge. The iconic museum's Open Access policy led them to put 375,000 images under the Creative Commons license earlier this year and now they are teaming up with the Internet Archive for a new digital release.

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