Timeline of Select Projects | Index of Projects

Title Year(s) Field Description
A Collection in Context: The Hispanic Society of America 2012 - 2013 Museology, North America

Concerned as much with the museum as an institution as with the objects contained within it, this digital monograph is constructed around a virtual tour of the Hispanic Society galleries, recreating the museumgoer experience carefully orchestrated by the Society's founder, Archer Milton Huntington.

Art Humanities 2014 - 2015 Europe, North America

All materials from the original Masterpieces of Western Art website are now hosted on the Columbia College Core Office's website for greater consistency with the other Core classes.

Columbia Image Bank on Artstor Image Database

The Art History Teaching Collection, compiled by the Media Center for Art History from scans of slides and photographs, is accessible to anyone on Columbia's campus or with a Columbia University UNI.

Goddess, Heroine, Beast: Anna Hyatt Huntington's New York Sculpture, 1902-1936 2013 - 2014 Sculpture, North America

An online catalog for the Wallach Art Gallery exibit of the same name

Goya: Disasters of War Prints, Europe

Scans of thirteen of Goya's Disasters of War prints with captions, organized as a slideshow

Great Vista Peak, Mount Taishan, Shandong 2007 - 2008 Sculpture, Asia

Animation of the rock inscriptions on Great Vista Peak disappearing in reverse chronological order of creation to reveal the mountain face as it likely appeared pre-inscriptions

Luna Image Database

Before Artstor, Luna hosted the Art History Teaching Collection images.

MCID (MDID) 2011 - 2012 Image Database

The Media Center Image Database (MCID) hosts the Department of Art History's teaching collections, special collections, and original photography of globally significant art and architecture. Fieldwork highlights include Istanbul, Iraq, Rome, Chicago, The American Southwest, and Japan.

MCID Metadata Restructuring 2024 - 2026 Image Database

With over 110,000 new individual images added to MCID in the last couple years from digitization projects alone, MCID's reliance on collections as a primary organizational focus hinders findability of these important new resources. The Media Center has initiated an MCID restructuring project, designed to build connections across collections and increase findability of media of all types. This project is still in process and will be announced formally when available.

Mnemosyne Image Database

Before MCID, Mnemosyne was the Media Center's database for hosting all its image resources.

Parthenon Frieze 2001 - 2002 Sculpture, Europe

Annotated floorplans and images of the Parthenon frieze, organized by facade.

South America Fieldwork Architecture, South America

Two Columbia University graduate students, Rebecca Fitle and Amanda Gannaway, took these images of important archaeological and cultural heritage sites in Bolivia and Peru.

Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University Sculpture, Asia

Featuring still images, rotational object photography, and curator's texts, this Media Center site was built to serve as a digital catalog for an exhibit of Chinese sculpture from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler's large donation of Asian artworks to Columbia University.