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JHU Museums Year in Review: Meet the New Staffers

Posted on December 30, 2022 by amulvihill

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

Posted on December 9, 2022 by amulvihill

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 […]


Bloomberg Arts Intern Recounts Summer Internship with JHU Museums

Posted on September 9, 2021 by amulvihill
J’Naya Harris

As students here at Hopkins and around the area returned to school this week, long-separated friends no doubt greeted each other with the tried-and-true query, “What did you do over […]


Easier Open Publishing with Wiley Journals

Posted on April 13, 2021 by Robin Sinn

The Johns Hopkins Libraries are piloting an agreement with Wiley to promote Open Access and make it easier for our researchers and authors to achieve.   The Johns Hopkins Libraries have entered […]


New Workshops: Copyright for Graduate Students

Posted on March 22, 2021 by Robin Sinn

Are you interested in learning more about the copyright issues that may arise as you develop your scholarship? Would you like to understand what copyright is, how to work with […]


Black History Month at Homewood: Honoring Enslaved People at Homewood Museum

Posted on February 25, 2021 by mfitzgerald

The story of Homewood and slavery did not end when Harriet Carroll left Homewood in 1816, taking the Ross family with her to Philadelphia. Homewood remained in the hands of the Carroll family until 1838, during which time many of the individuals enslaved by Charles Carroll of Homewood were relocated to another Carroll estate, Doughoregan […]


Black History Month at Homewood: The Dining Room and the Politics of Plenty

Posted on February 24, 2021 by mfitzgerald
Homewood Museum Dining Room

In honor of Black History Month, JHU Museums’ curators have prepared a series of blog posts about the enslaved community at Homewood in the early 1800s. Today’s post examining the roles of enslaved workers in dining and entertaining at historic Homewood is the second post in a series of three. To read the first blog […]


Libraries & Museums Curators Share Black History and Anti-Racist Media Recommendations

Posted on June 23, 2020 by amulvihill
Reading Books

Like many throughout the country, staffers of the Sheridan Libraries and University Museums are turning to books and other media in an effort to better understand the ways in which […]


Evergreen Obscurus: The 10.5 Pound Turnip Edition

Posted on May 18, 2020 by lfinkelstein
Evergreen House Resized

Greetings from Evergreen Museum & Library’s virtual office in my basement. For those of you new to us, the museum is housed in a 162-year-old Italianate mansion in the northern-most […]


How to Use Artstor as a Study Tool

Posted on May 13, 2020 by Lael Ensor-Bennett
Fe?lix Vallotton, The Sick Patient, Helene Chatenay, 1892 Cropped

[This blog post was contributed by VRC Staff Emily McDonald (Writing Seminars)] As the end of the semester approaches, students are turning to Artstor, a database that houses more than […]


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