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Visual Resources Center

STAFF

Curator
Nancy Alexander

Graduate Assistants
Tristan Barnes
Sarah Lake
Liz Makowski

Undergraduate Assistant
Christine Nguyen

LOCATION AND HOURS

Visual Resources Center and Anderson Photo Collection
University of Missouri
Department of Art History & Classical Archaeology
109 Pickard Hall

hours: 8:00am-12:00 p.m. & 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Monday through Friday

summer hours: 7:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. & 12:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.,
Monday through Friday

Imaging Lab, Photo Archive and Marburger Index
Parker Hall

Description

The Visual Resources Center houses a large number of images of works of art and architecture spanning the distance from prehistory to contemporary art. The VRC includes the following collections:

• Slide library, consisting of approximately 135,000 35mm slides, housed in Pickard Hall
• A growing digital image database available online to faculty and students on campus, maintained at the Parker Hall Imaging Lab
• Anderson Photo Collection, containing over 80,000 photographs from Alinari and prints from the private English collections of the Courtauld Institute
• Department photo archive, consisting of approximately 18,000 images mounted and archived for classroom use
• Lantern slide collection, consisting of approximately 10,000 lantern slides, most dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries
• Marburger Index, a microfiche collection of more than 520,000 images of German art

Online resources

• Museums: Links to museums worldwide
• VireoWeb: Online database with images, click here. Contact Curator for login information
• Images Links to image websites
• Links: Image sites and helpful reference links for art history and archaeology.

Instructions for Use

The facility may be used by:

• MU Faculty
• MU Students
• Museum of Art and Archaeology Staff
• Museum of Art and Archaeology Docents

Slides may be checked out for a 24 hour period. There is a late fee of $0.25 for each day a slide is not returned. In addition, a charge of $6.00 will be applied for all lost or damaged slides. Duplication of slides is not permitted. Please contact the Curator of Visual Resources for access to any of the VRC collections.