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Event Title: The Met Museum Archives
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 1, 2025, at 6:00 PM
Format: Webinar via Zoom
This talk will provide insight into The Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum Archives, which span over 150 years of institutional history. Established under the Museum's 1870 Constitution, The Met's Museum Archives are among the oldest museum archives in the United States. Janine Biunno, The Met's Head of Archives, will discuss the archive's history as well as current initiatives, followed by a Q&A session.
This is a free, virtual webinar hosted via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Upon registering for the webinar, you will receive a confirmation via email with a link to join the webinar. This webinar will not be video recorded.
About The Met / The Met Museum Archives:
The Met is the largest art museum in the United States, and by most measures is among the largest in the world. The Museum holds more than 2 million works of art, maintains more than 2 million square feet of buildings, and welcomes around 7 million in-person visitors annually. The staff numbers over 2000 people, who are organized in more than 50 departments.
The objective of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives is to collect, organize, and preserve in perpetuity the corporate records and official correspondence of the Museum, to make the collection accessible and provide research support, and to further an informed and enduring understanding of the Museum's history and continued legacy.
Archives holdings include Board of Trustees records and the central legal files of the Museum, which document nearly every aspect of operations including the acquisition of art, special exhibitions, construction projects, and fundraising. Additionally, The Met's Museum Archives holds the files of several curatorial departments and individual curators, as well as the records of some outside art dealers, galleries and collectors with close association to the Met. The Museum Archives team also oversees the implementation of best practices surrounding all archival collections and records management initiatives throughout the museum.
About Janine Biunno:
Janine Biunno heads The Met's Museum Archives as the museum's Managing Archivist. Prior to The Met, Janine spent an 8 year tenure as the Director of Archives and Information Management at The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, and 7 years as the Director of Archives and Publications at Steven Holl Architects. Janine received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston @ Tufts University, GCert. in Museum Studies from Tufts University, and MLS from CUNY Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, and formerly taught at Pratt's School of Information.
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