- The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently released 400,000 hi-resolution digital images online that you can download and use for non-commercial purposes. [via Colossal]
- When digitizing still images, here is a comparison of the different formats you can choose from. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LOC]
- There are 35,144 active museums in the United States, double the last official estimate in the 1990s. [via InfoDocket]
- The Archives Center at the National Museum of American History recently acquired the personal papers of Don Herbert, who was better known as Mr. Wizard and who brought science education to kids from the 1950s to the 1980s. [via Smithsonian Science]
- May and June bring about graduation season at high schools, colleges, and universities across the country. NPR has a new online database of commencement speeches to peruse and C-SPAN has a collection of 677 speeches as well. [via InfoDocket]
- Due for an inspection - with the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall scheduled to be redone, Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis will be lowered for inspection and conservation. [via AirSpace, NASM]
- Album covers, a disappearing fixture of our music experience, photographer Jim Cummins took hundreds of images that made were used for covers at Atlantic Records. Now he is in the process of restoring some of those photos from his archive of 2500 images. [via PetaPixel]
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