- Scenes from the Scurlock Studio Collection at the Archives Center at the National Museum of American History. [via Smithsonian Collections Blog]
- Yeah! Another crowdfunding goal achieved - The University of Texas at Austin successfully funded a recording studio in the Fine Arts Library. [via InfoDocket]
- 70 years after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, researchers are archiving the longest running study of A-bomb survivors. [via Motherboard]
- Opening this week is the National Postal Museum exhibition: PostSecret: The Power of a Postcard, which presents a contemporary look at mail and the postal service, highlighting the aesthetics of postcards and the juxtaposition between anonymity and shared experiences. [via Pushing the Envelope blog, NPM]
- Coming together - 100 year old images at Cambridge University's Museum of Archaeology and Antrhopology have been digitized and are being reunited with the communities they depict. [via Motherboard]
- Lonnie Bunch, Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture was on NPR last week talking about why he decided to start gathering items from the Ferguson protests and the subsequent Black Lives Matter movement. [via NPR]
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