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First step to designing a 1930s inspired garden (I mean, at least we can dream in February, no?): use the Smithsonian’s Archive of American Gardens images as inspiration. - Here’s a new blog for all of you interested in digital libraries/archives/museums and preservation [via @blefurgy].
- This is a pretty cool before and after from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Hopefully the Smithsonian will have some of our own to share with you soon what with the construction of the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the renovation of the Arts and Industries building underway.
- Ominous and absurd images from the former East German Ministry of State Security (STASI) secret photo archives revealed (including their secret hand signal).
- Whoa. How studying the paper of book pages is helping scientists uncover a history of atmospheric conditions and pollution [via @archivesinfo].
- The New York Philharmonic archives, recently released to the public, reveal the personal and the political—including Berstein’s thoughts on Mahler and racial discrimination suits at the height of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
- Peek into the National Archives’ Conservation Lab, and learn about one of their paper conservator's favorite objects:
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