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Notre Dame launches platform for online access to Hesburgh Library, Snite Museum of Art holdings
Online access to these selections of distinctive cultural heritage materials at Notre Dame is free and open to the public.
NOTRE DAME, IN
.- The Hesburgh Libraries and the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame have launched Marble an online teaching and research platform designed to make distinctive cultural heritage collections from across the University accessible through a single portal.
The development of Marble was made possible, in part, by a three-and-one-half-year grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create an open-access, unified software solution that would enable universities to access the Snite Museum and library holdings through a single online platform.
The First Art Newspaper on the Net
by Thomas Rogers
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- For almost 20 years, Werner Kohl has followed the saga of the Humboldt Forum. Like many Germans, he has been watching and listening since 2002, when the government approved a plan for the huge new cultural attraction in Berlin. Thats nearly two decades of debate, protest, overspend and delay. So on Tuesday evening, when he finally stood in the buildings darkened exhibition spaces, he was thrilled, he said. Ive been looking forward to this day from the beginning, Kohl said. Im here to see if it delivers on what it proposed. Kohl, 63, was there to see Terrible Beauty, a temporary exhibition of ivory artifacts ranging across 40,000 years. It was one of six inaugural shows in the Forum, which brings together several museum collections in a reconstructed Baroque palace. Located on the site of the demolished East German Parliament and conceived as Germanys equivalent to the Louvre, the Hu
Notre Dame breaks ground for new Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
Artists rendering of front entrance plaza.
NOTRE DAME, IN
.-The University of Notre Dame began construction last week on the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, with a planned completion in fall 2023.
Since its founding, Notre Dame has valued the vital role the visual arts play as an expression of human creativity, religious experience and insight into the human condition, University President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., said. By bringing the collections currently in the Snite Museum of Art to new life in the Raclin Murphy Museum, we will be able to share these treasures in all their richness with our University community, our neighbors in the region and the wider world.