Should museum labels identify the subject matter of the ... “didactic” labels represent the front-line effort to contextualize objects on display. This placard in the Met’s “The Harlem ...

Most people have probably seen a museum label or two in their time--usually a small explainer of the object: title, date created, artist or origin. That can do the trick for those looking for ...

It added: "Jane was answering a very specific question about how we make the information on object labels accessible to a wider range of people." Answering a question as part of the museum's # ...

Christine Coulson, who spent 25 years working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ... For the rest of the novel, the object labels offer up a road map of her well-bred life: from the Chapin School ...

The object, which the Met says it acquired in 1962, is listed as part of the museum’s Islamic Art Department as a sixth-century amulet from Egypt. It is dated at A.D. 500–1000. Forwarding the News ...

Curated by the British Museum’s Richard Abdy ... “Legion” personalizes our understanding with wall texts and object labels bearing excerpts from the letters of Claudius Terentianus ...

Mount Holyoke College Art Museum removed two Native objects from display. "The objects' empty cases have been left on view with new labels explaining the new NAGPRA rules." Mount Holyoke said in a ...

We are meant to read her life story as if we were walking through an exhibition at a museum like the Met, gazing at a set of related decorative objects laid out in chronological order in a series ...