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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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Photography | What’s it like to be a Gallery Docent? Tracy Stuber shares her experience

This guest post is by Tracy Stuber, Gallery Docent and a Ph.D Candidate in Visual and Cultural...

Jun 15, 2018 - 5 minutes

Cinema | Chromatic Border Crossings: Technicolor in China

This guest post is written by Kirsty Sinclair Dootson, PhD Candidate Yale University in History of...

May 16, 2018 - 5 minutes

Cinema | #MeetGEM: Rachel E. Andrews

Meet Rachel E. Andrews, Assistant Collection Manager in the Department of Photography, and the...

May 14, 2018 - 1 minute

Cinema | #MeetGEM: Jared Case

Meet Jared Case, Head of Collection Information, Research, and Access in the Eastman Museum’s Moving...

May 03, 2018 - 1 minute

Director's Note | Championing the Arts

During more than three decades in Congress, Representative Louise Slaughter (1929–2018) championed...

May 01, 2018 - 3 minutes

Photography | The Zelda Mackay Collection

This guest post is written by Katie Cornell, Photographic Preservation and Collections Management...

Mar 27, 2018 - 5 minutes

Director's Note | Contemporary Moving Image Artwork On View Daily

Over the past year, during museum hours, the Dryden Theatre has become an exhibition space for such...

Mar 20, 2018 - 3 minutes

Cinema | Umrao Jaan: Love, Loss and Poetry

There is so much more to the complexity to the life of the 1850s courtesan than has been developed...

Mar 06, 2018 - 5 minutes

Photography | Looking Again at Women in Photography

Drawing on the collections of the George Eastman Museum, a photography scholar seeks to reimagine...

Feb 27, 2018 - 6 minutes

Cinema | Swades: We, The People

“Making Swades was such an emotionally overwhelming experience that I never saw the finished product...

Feb 20, 2018 - 5 minutes

Director's Note | Preserving Our Photography and Technology Collections

The George Eastman Museum has been entrusted with world-class collections and a National Historic...

Jan 22, 2018 - 3 minutes

Photography | Go #BeyondTheSelfie with these photography challenges!

January 17 was Museum Selfie Day, a worldwide event that encourages visitors to engage with museums...