Season’s greetings from the Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives team! Just because it&rsquo

Season’s greetings from the Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives team! Just because it’s the holiday season doesn’t mean it’s quiet in the #BKMLibrary. On Tuesday, December 15th, we kicked off our Library Salon series after a brief hiatus due to renovations on the Museum’s second floor that will introduce climate control and create new galleries devoted to Asian, Islamic Art and Libraries and Archives.For this event we invited Museum staff to view rare items from the Libraries and Archives collections, and to discuss reference services we provide to the Museum staff and the public. #BKMLibrary staff members discussed their roles in the department and selected some of their favorite items from the collection to display. Rare items from the two Museum libraries were on view including a catalogue of the first chronological exhibition of American art held at the Brooklyn Art Association in 1872, a Lang & Nau trade catalog from 1880 documenting furniture in the Museum’s collection and a portfolio of pochoir prints documenting Kiowa Indian Art  (1929) as well as some contemporary artists’ books such as Burn the diaries published in Brooklyn in 2014.The holdings of the Wilbour Library of Egyptology were well represented by The magnificently illustrated Description de l'Égypte , a collaborative work created by scholars, scientists, and artists who accompanied Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt in 1798 to 1801; rare auction catalogs, recent publications by Brooklyn Museum curators, and the oldest book in the Brooklyn Museum Library – an early work on architecture M. Vitrvvivs per Iocvndvm solito castigatior factvs cvm figvris et tabvla vt iam legi et intelligi possit from 1511.Archives items included hand colored lantern slides of the 1900 Paris Exposition from the Goodyear Archival Collection; an 1893 Site Plan for McKim, Mead and White’s original design for the Museum building, and a 1908 Expedition Report from the Culin Archival Collection that document’s many of the museum’s objects, including a Baleen Whale Mask that is currently on display on the first floor.Posted by Jennifer Neal -- source link

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