MLN Projects and Publications
Sharing Connections
With support from Knight Foundation, the MLN has published Sharing Connections: A Decade of the Museum Loan Network, a book celebrating and reflecting on a decade of the work of the MLN. The publication, filled with stories from the field and dedicated to Stephen Weil, is available from the MLN at:
Museum Loan Network
John Nicholas Brown Center
Box 1880
Brown University 02912
tel: 401-863-1177
fax: 401-863-7777
e-mail: mln@brown.edu
Museum as Catalyst
Museum as Catalyst for Interdisciplinary Collaboration:
Beginning a Conversation
Museum Loan Network
© 2002 MIT
Paperback, 64 pp.
Proceedings of the series of convenings that were hosted by the Museum Loan Network in 2000-2001. These meetings, which gathered innovative leaders from different disciplines, explored a number of interrelated issues, challenges, and opportunities affecting collaboration and today's museums. It is our hope that the conversations reflected in this publication will further the discourse on the role of collaboration and inspire institutions and individuals to continue to explore new ways of working in their own communities.
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Foreword
Lori Gross
Reasons to Collaborate
Building Blocks
Hallmarks of Successful Collaboration
Managing Collaborations
Evaluating Collaborations
Readiness to Collaborate
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e-mail: mln@brown.edu
Early American Art
With the generous support from The Henry Luce Foundation, the MLN has expanded the MLN Directory by increasing and strengthening its presentation of early American painting and sculpture through 1840. “Energizing the Study of Early American Art” presents online information and images of a core group of loanable objects, as well as a selection of comparative early American works not necessarily available for long-term loan, in order to increase accessibility to works from the period. The expanded Directory, designed for use by academics, researchers, independent scholars, curators, students and educators, will facilitate study of early American art, promote collections sharing, strengthen existing museum networks and foster new long-term relationships between colleagues in the field.
More information about the MLN's Early American Art Project.
Collecting Stories – Connecting Objects
Collecting Stories: Connecting Objects, funded by The Nathan Cummings Foundation and John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, is an initiative designed to engage communities with museum collections by connecting oral histories with cultural objects. The Collecting Stories website provides a toolkit, demonstration projects and other online resources.
More information about Collecting Stories – Connecting Objects.
Virtual Exhibits
The MLN supported virtual exhibitions that highlight and preserve physical exhibitions that took advantage of MLN loans. Many of these were done using software no longer supported; these are listed here for archival purposes.
The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art Presents: Art in Roman Life: Villa to Grave
Structures: Sculptures in Soul and Sound at the Mobile Museum of Art
From One Hand to Another: Native American Treasures from the Children's Museum
A Place Not Forgotten: Landscapes of the South from the Morris Museum of Art
Ancestors: Art and the Afterlife at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Arts of Ancient America at the Mint Museum of Art
Arts of Asia at the Joslyn Art Museum
Arts of Japan and the Pacific Islands at the Fitchburg Art Museum
Buddhist Sculpture Along the Trade Routes at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art
Isamu Noguchi at the Mobile Museum of Art
To view two experimental online exhibitions drawn from the MLN Directory, click on the links below:
Colonial Choices, a collaborative project between the MLN and The Haggerty School