The Morgan Library on Pinterest
The Morgan Library & Museum's Pinterest: 16,000 pins of drawings, from 18th-century botanicals to perspective studies, watercolors and food in art.
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The Morgan Library & Museum's Pinterest: 16,000 pins of drawings, from 18th-century botanicals to perspective studies, watercolors and food in art.
Site of the dayAn online journal digging up curious works from the public domain — odd prints, forgotten books, maps and photos — with essays that give them context.
Telegram of the dayOne poem a day, Monday to Friday, posted in full — from Catullus and Han-shan to Emily Dickinson, G. K. Chesterton and Charles Bukowski.
TikTok of the dayScience communicator and author Toby Hendy turns physics, math and strange ideas into calm, curious short videos.
Telegram of the dayThe National Library Board of Singapore's official channel: a history podcast, a cooking show built on old recipe books, and plenty of reading ideas.
Chile of the dayA digital project by the National Library of Chile: hundreds of themed mini-sites with digitised books, maps, photos, scores and recordings on the country's culture.
The Public Domain Review's Pinterest: old engravings, manuscripts, bookplates, antique playing cards and early color photos, each with a story.
Poland of the dayThe National Library of Poland's digital collection: manuscripts, old photos, maps, sheet music and posters you can zoom into in high resolution.
The British Library shares its visual treasures: manuscripts, illustrations, Alice, and books turned into sculpture.
The official profile of the world's largest library: old illustrations, photographs and albums from its collections.
A dictionary that tells you not what a word means but where it came from: which roots, which languages it passed through, and how its meaning shifted along the way.
Instagram of the dayPolish studio Zupagrafika makes paper models of modernist and brutalist buildings and publishes books on 20th-century architecture.