The Digital Collections Pinterest Board
The Digital Collections has created a Pinterest board on The Met’s Pinterest page. We have pinned over 100 of the most visually striking items from the Digital Collections, and more pins are going up...
View ArticleMiniature Books and Balloon Mania
In 1783, brothers Joseph-Michel (1740-1810) and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier (1745-1799) made history with the debut of the hot air balloon. After the device’s first manned flight and subsequent public...
View ArticleWilliam Loring Andrews, Book Collector and First Met Museum Librarian
In 1878 William Loring Andrews became a trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and served as its first librarian beginning in 1882. Today his portrait hangs in the administrative office of the...
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