The first year of the IMLS grant to identify, inspect, and catalog the extensive South Asian Cinema Collections at the George Eastman Museum has been both exciting and productive. Archivists Erica Jones and Lydia Creech have really enjoyed working with this extremely unique collection of films. As they approach the…

The George Eastman Museum is committed to providing an engaging experience for all of our visitors. To advance this objective, we plan to create two new sets of galleries in spaces without historic interiors on the first and second floors of the mansion. Three new galleries on the first floor…

When we created the Thomas Tischer Visitor Center, the historic Palm House — which had been underutilized for many years — became the primary seating area for patrons of the museum’s popular new eatery, Open Face at Eastman Museum. The Palm House has been further enlivened by a reproduction of…

Many times in the history of the George Eastman Museum, we have been the first institution to present the works of a photographer or to organize a monographic compendium early in an artist’s career. We are thrilled to present an early-career survey of the work of Joshua Rashaad McFadden (b…

Our Fall 2021 intern, Mary Ellen Capineri, shares her experience working as part of our digital engagement team. Want to be an intern at the museum? Learn more at eastman.org/internships. I am earning a Certificate in Museum Studies from St. John Fisher College. This past semester, I have had the…

As part of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, we have been cataloging and digitizing our Boyer Collection, which includes over 10,000 objects that are important in the history of photography. The book here is “The Pencil of Nature” by William Henry Fox Talbot. It is…

This post was written by Erica Jones and Lydia Creech, Project Film Specialists in the Moving Image Department. This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services: Grant #MA-245614-OMS-20. Visit www.imls.gov. …

For Ask a Curator day (Wednesday, September 15, 2021) we are featuring the team who are working on cataloging and digitizing our Alden Scott Boyer collection: Project Cataloger Lilyan Jones and Project Photographer Mireya Salinas. The Boyer collection is one of the core collections of the George Eastman Museum, donated…

With the return of Silent Tuesdays to the Dryden Theatre this September, we are exploring the experience — and a bit of the history — of seeing silent movies on the big screen. Here, Jared Case, curator of film exhibitions, gives us some background: “Silent film” is a bit…