It is often said that the Johns Hopkins University Museums are laboratories of learning. Homewood Museum and Evergreen Museum & Library certainly lived up to that reputation in 2023, hosting […]
JHU Museums Year in Review: Interns
Meet Our First-Year Fellows: Maneeza Khan on Early Student Records
Enjoy this post by Maneeza Khan, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2023-2024 academic year. My eyes widened in awe as I read the impressive accomplishments of […]
Hopkins Students Participate in the Peabody Ballroom Experience
The ballroom scene is a nearly century-old performance-based culture composed primarily of queer, lesbian, trans, and gender non-conforming artists of color. Recently popularized by the television show Pose, ballroom consists […]
Service Desk Awardees: Briana Zhang and Steven Calleja
As we continue to welcome this year’s new crop of Service Desk workers, we want to recognize the achievements of our wonderful and hard working staff! Briana Zhang, Eisenhower Library […]
Burning Questions: Writers’ Associations
We, librarians, are fortunate that we get to meet a lot of incoming Hopkins students. We often request that they give us their “burning questions” — about Baltimore, Hopkins, the […]
Homewood Museum’s Historic Privy: Renovation and Reconsideration
Throughout the summer and fall of 2022, carpenters, masons, and painters worked to restore the interior of Homewood Museum’s historic privy. Built between 1801 and 1804, when construction on the […]
Meet our Freshman Fellows: Amy Li on Coeducation
Enjoy this post by Amy Li, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year! Welcome to my first blog post! My name is Amy Li, and […]
JHU Museums Year in Review: Meet the New Staffers
The past year was one of great activity and change at the Johns Hopkins University Museums. Much of that energy was derived from new staff members and new positions for […]
Shop the Gift Shops at Evergreen and Homewood This Holiday Season
The gift shops at Homewood Museum and Evergreen Museum & Library are great destinations for holiday shopping! And this weekend, during the museums’ respective open houses, JHU faculty, staff, and […]
Welcome Elisabeth Long to the Sheridan Libraries & University Museums!
On November 2, 2022, President Ron Daniels and Provost Sunil Kumar sent the following announcement by email to the Johns Hopkins community. Dear Faculty, Staff, and Students: In December of […]