The Block Museum’s collection of more than 6,000 works is fully digitized and accessible through our eMuseum platform, but that doesn’t always mean it’s easy to find what you’re looking for. Search tools rely on structured metadata—keywords that help surface an object when a user types in terms like “diaspora” or “activism.” Without consistent, descriptive […]
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Block Museum Student Associate Mayán Alvarado-Goldberg (Major Neuroscience and Minors Global Health and Native American and Indigenous Studies ’24) shares a personal account of an unexpected partnership this year that lead to an extraordinary alignment of languages, family, and culture. Throughout the fall and spring quarters of 2022, a number of members of the Block […]
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As The Block pivoted to online engagement last year, our staff continued to consider how to center equity and inclusion in our digital work. Thanks to the Herculean efforts of the Collections team, almost 6,000 high resolution images of artworks in the collection are now visible on our new public-facing collections site. After the site’s […]
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