Notre Dame launches platform for online access to Hesburgh Library, Snite Museum of Art holdings
Online access to these selections of distinctive cultural heritage materials at Notre Dame is free and open to the public.
NOTRE DAME, IN
.- The Hesburgh Libraries and the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame have launched Marble an online teaching and research platform designed to make distinctive cultural heritage collections from across the University accessible through a single portal.
The development of Marble was made possible, in part, by a three-and-one-half-year grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create an open-access, unified software solution that would enable universities to access the Snite Museum and library holdings through a single online platform.
Notre Dame breaks ground for new Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
Artists rendering of front entrance plaza.
NOTRE DAME, IN
.-The University of Notre Dame began construction last week on the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, with a planned completion in fall 2023.
Since its founding, Notre Dame has valued the vital role the visual arts play as an expression of human creativity, religious experience and insight into the human condition, University President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., said. By bringing the collections currently in the Snite Museum of Art to new life in the Raclin Murphy Museum, we will be able to share these treasures in all their richness with our University community, our neighbors in the region and the wider world.
The Snite Museum of Art announces gifts of six important American and British paintings
John Henry Twachtman (American, 18531902), The Chicago Worlds Fair, Illinois Building, ca. 1893. Oil on canvas. Gift of Ann Uhry Abrams, PhD 2020.029.001.
NOTRE DAME, IN
.-The Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame is delighted to announce that it is the recipient of six noteworthy paintings from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries that will significantly augment the Museums holdings in American and British art. The Museum is deeply grateful for these gifts, many by donors with long relationships to the Museum and Notre Dame, states Joseph Antenucci Becherer, Director of the Snite Museum of Art. The importance of our 18th.-, 19th- and 20th-century collections have been greatly enhanced with these works.