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Walters Art Museum opens access to 10,000 images
![More than 10,000 items in the <a href="http://findlocal.baltimoresun.com/mount-vernon/art/art/the-walters-art-museum-baltimore-museum">Walters Art Museum</a> — about a third of the total collection — can now be viewed and downloaded online for free, without copyright restrictions.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-10/65201641-04103054.jpg "More than 10,000 items in the <a href="http://findlocal.baltimoresun.com/mount-vernon/art/art/the-walters-art-museum-baltimore-museum\">Walters Art Museum</a> — about a third of the total collection — can now be viewed and downloaded online for free, without copyright restrictions.")
More than 10,000 items in the Walters Art Museum — about a third of the total collection — can now be viewed and downloaded online for free, without copyright restrictions.
The museum's collection is "basically public domain," said Dylan...Tags: Facebook, Social Media, Museums, File Sharing, Arts and Culture
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Walters researchers decode the secrets of the Archimedes Palimpsest
![Twelve years ago, <a href="http://findlocal.baltimoresun.com/mount-vernon/art/art/the-walters-art-museum-baltimore-museum">Walters Art Museum</a> curator Will Noel opened a parcel and discovered what he calls "Archimedes' brain in a box."](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-10/65417370-14110719.jpg "Twelve years ago, <a href="http://findlocal.baltimoresun.com/mount-vernon/art/art/the-walters-art-museum-baltimore-museum\">Walters Art Museum</a> curator Will Noel opened a parcel and discovered what he calls \"Archimedes' brain in a box.\"")
Twelve years ago, Walters Art Museum curator Will Noel opened a parcel and discovered what he calls "Archimedes' brain in a box."
Thus began a search for buried treasure — in this case, the lost writings of Archimedes of Syracuse, a famed Greek...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Philosophy, Auction Service, Archimedes, Religion and Belief
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Family forges history at Baltimore ironworks shop
Upon entering the G. Krug & Son blacksmith shop, I was handed a pair of safety goggles and immediately knew I was in for a treat.
All around me were the goings-on of a bygone era. Peter Krug, owner of the Baltimore workshop that has been in business...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Colleges and Universities, Renovation, Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia), Lacrosse
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The Interview: Robin Budish, community organizer for Baltimore Streetcar Campaign
Robin Budish spends her days rallying support for an idea she says will make downtown Baltimore more livable — building a streetcar line along Charles Street.
Budish was hired last fall as community organizer for the Baltimore Streetcar Campaign, a...Tags: Overlea, Charles Street, Education, Tampa, University of Baltimore
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Walters donates artwork images to Wikipedia
The Walters Art Museum is donating more than 19,000 images of artworks from its collection to the organization running Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that is created and edited by users. The images will be available for Wikipedia articles in any...
Tags: Arts, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Museums, Social Media, Arts and Culture
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Jane Meyerhoff's floral collection given to the Walters
Walters Museum: Jane Meyerhoff's floral still lifes collection will be donated to the Walters Art Museum by philanthropist Robert Meyerhoff. Jane Meyerhoff loved flowers, but she was allergic to their fragrance and couldn't have them in the house. In...
Tags: Arts, Baltimore Museum of Art, Allergies, Robert Rauschenberg, Charity
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Patricia Modell, actress and philanthropist, dies at 80
Patricia Modell, a successful TV and film actress in the 1950s and '60s who became a well-known philanthropist in Baltimore with her husband, former Ravens owner Arthur Modell, died Wednesday at the age of 80.
Mrs. Modell was admitted two weeks ago to...Tags: Celebrities, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Hospitals and Clinics, New York City, Poetry
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Walters Art Museum receives $265,000 grant to help digitize manuscripts
![Baltimore's <a href="http://findlocal.baltimoresun.com/mount-vernon/art/art/the-walters-art-museum-baltimore-museum">Walters Art Museum</a> has received a $265,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to put toward digitizing its collection of medieval manuscripts and making it available, via computer, to the general public.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-03/69059238-27084423.jpg "Baltimore's <a href="http://findlocal.baltimoresun.com/mount-vernon/art/art/the-walters-art-museum-baltimore-museum\">Walters Art Museum</a> has received a $265,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to put toward digitizing its collection of medieval manuscripts and making it available, via computer, to the general public.")
Baltimore's Walters Art Museum has received a $265,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to put toward digitizing its collection of medieval manuscripts and making it available, via computer, to the general public.
The three-year project,...Tags: Arts, Museums, Arts and Culture, Artists
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Alice P. Davies, co-owned resume writing business
Alice Pinkham Davies, who helped thousands of clients with their business careers as the co-owner of a resume writing service, died of Alzheimer's disease Thursday at Gilchrist Hospice Care. She was 85 and lived in Towson.
Born Alice Arnold Pinkham in...Tags: Arts, Culture, Baltimore Museum of Art, Education, Washington, DC
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Good afternoon, Baltimore: Tuesday lunchtime lowdown
ON THE SITE... Forest Hill girl seriously injured in lawnmower accident: A 5-year-old girl needed a double foot amputation after the Monday night accident. Obama to visit Baltimore on June 12: President Obama will make what could turn out to be his only...Tags: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Elections, Politics, Theft, Waverly (Baltimore, Maryland)
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Contemporary Museum to suspend operations May 31
The trustees of the Contemporary Museum announced Monday that they have voted unanimously to suspend operations May 31. That will be the last day for the executive director and four part-time staff members. Plans to secure a new home for the museum have...
Tags: Arts, St. Paul Street, Mount Vernon, Charles Street, Museums
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Walters Art Museum director Gary Vikan to step down
![Gary Vikan, who has been a dynamic force at the helm of the <a href="http://findlocal.baltimoresun.com/mount-vernon/art/art/the-walters-art-museum-baltimore-museum">Walters Art Museum</a> for 18 years, will leave the post of director in June 2013, or when his successor is in place.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-03/68629598-07075653.jpg "Gary Vikan, who has been a dynamic force at the helm of the <a href="http://findlocal.baltimoresun.com/mount-vernon/art/art/the-walters-art-museum-baltimore-museum\">Walters Art Museum</a> for 18 years, will leave the post of director in June 2013, or when his successor is in place.")
Gary Vikan, who has been a dynamic force at the helm of the Walters Art Museum for 18 years, will leave the post of director in June 2013, or when his successor is in place.
"I really made the decision in November 2008, when I was 62," Vikan said, "but...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Arts, Baltimore Museum of Art, Book, Museums
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