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Director's Note | Progress on Mansion Galleries and Exhibitions

The first phase of a major project that will transform our visitors’ experience, the renovation of...

Nov 03, 2025 - 3 minutes

Director's Note | Rita Moreno to Receive George Eastman Award

The George Eastman Museum will honor actor, dancer, and singer Rita Moreno with the prestigious...

Sep 26, 2025 - 3 minutes

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Mansion | Ask a Curator: How many acres was George Eastman’s Estate?

The short answer is, according to Eastman himself, his urban farm was ten acres. However, with many...

Oct 19, 2020 - 2 minutes

Director's Note | Welcome!

Over the past three years, supporters of the George Eastman Museum have generously committed more...

Oct 19, 2020 - 3 minutes

| A Different Kind of Internship: Updates from our Summer 2020 Digital Engagement Interns

Our Summer 2020 Digital Engagement interns, Eleanore Barrera and Lucy Wagner share their experience...

Sep 03, 2020 - 6 minutes

Director's Note | You Complete Us

In late March, just as Governor Cuomo was ordering that nonessential businesses suspend having...

Aug 20, 2020 - 3 minutes

| What’s the oldest book in our collection?

The invention of photography was announced to the public in 1839, but the oldest book in the George...

Jul 30, 2020 - 2 minutes

Mansion | How to Make George Eastman’s Lemon Meringue Pie

While George Eastman is more commonly known for popularizing photography and founding Kodak, one of...

Jul 10, 2020 - 2 minutes

Cinema | Remembering Jack Garner (1945–2020)

This tribute to Jack Garner was written by Jared Case, curator of film exhibitions. I knew Jack...

Jul 09, 2020 - 7 minutes

Director's Note | The Bruce Bates Colonnade

The George Eastman Museum is eager to reopen to our members on July 17 and the general public on...

Jul 07, 2020 - 3 minutes

| A Full Circle: the DT NGT2 returns to George Eastman Museum

Elizabeth Chiang, museum photographer, shares how the museum beta tested a new color reference...

May 08, 2020 - 5 minutes

Director's Note | Reaching Out in New Ways

For most of the George Eastman Museum’s seventy-year history, our visitors and friends have...

May 01, 2020 - 4 minutes

| An Interesting Semester: Updates from our Digital Engagement Interns

Our Spring 2020 interns, Bailey Carozollo and Laiken Wilson share their experience working as part...

Apr 24, 2020 - 5 minutes

Photography | John Pfahl: In Memoriam 1939–2020

By Lisa Hostetler, Curator in Charge, Department of Photography People think the camera steals their...

Apr 23, 2020 - 2 minutes

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