The National Audubon Society has launched a complete digital library of John J. Audubon’s Birds of America! [via Society of American Archivists]

Conservators discuss the challenges posed by very, very big museum objects. [via The Conservators’ Podcast]
Long-neglected recipes from ancient Babylonia have been recently rediscovered, and cooked! [via K. Tempest Bradford]
Hyperallergic highlights flood recovery efforts at cultural heritage sites in Venice. [via Preservation Week]
21st-century technologies have uncovered hidden details beneath a 500-year-old da Vinci painting! [via National Gallery]
![left to right: Norman R. F. (Raymond Frederick) Maier (1900-1977), Nathan M. Glaser (d. 2011), and Barbara Jean Sherburne (Stewart) (b. 1914), Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5796]. left to right: Norman R. F. (Raymond Frederick) Maier (1900-1977), Nathan M. Glaser (d. 2011), and Barbara Jean Sherburne (Stewart) (b. 1914)](https://ids.si.edu/ids/iiif/SIA-SIA2008-5796/full/350,/0/default.jpg)
Smithsonian Magazine discusses Paleobiologist’s Best Friend: rats. [via Smithsonian]
The Met shows how an etching is made! [via Metropolitan Museum of Art]
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