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HMML Becomes an Independent Nonprofit
“As of July 1, 2023, HMML is operating as its own 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation. HMML began in 1965...”
- Margaret Bresnahan
Creating Relationships — Sharing the Past to Build Toward Future Scholarship
“HMML Authority File (HAF) is a new open-access database created as part of...”
- Dr. Catherine Walsh
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) Announces Second Season of its Virtual Series, “To Listen: A Global Journey”
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) Announces Second Season of its Virtual Series, “To Listen: A Global Journey”
- Joe Rogers
Icon Collection Finds a New Home at HMML
“This year, HMML received a large donation of Russian icons from the collection of Edmund Gronkiewicz...”
- Katherine Goertz
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) Creates New Database to Assist Scholars of Understudied Manuscript Traditions
“HMML has developed a new database to support and enhance the study of understudied manuscript traditions...”
- Joe Rogers
Multispectral Imaging Tests at HMML
“In July 2021, a series of multispectral imaging tests were conducted at HMML by Mike Toth of...”
- Margaret Bresnahan
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) Receives $5 Million Grant From Arcadia
“This five-year grant focuses on digitization, archiving and cataloging of endangered manuscript collections...”
- Joe Rogers
Prof. Getatchew Haile, FBA, 1931–2021
“With great sadness we learned that our dear friend and colleague...”
- Dr. Columba Stewart
HMML Presents Third Program in “To Listen” Series on May 20, 2021
“Inspired by the need to promote active listening in the pursuit of understanding and connection, HMML developed a...”
- Joe Rogers
HMML Presents the Second Program in the “To Listen” Series on March 18, 2021
“HMML developed a series featuring cultural preservation partners and leaders from...”
- Joe Rogers
HMML Presents New Program, “To Listen: A Global Journey”
“Inspired by the call to action in Fr. Columba Stewart’s 2019 Jefferson Lecture, this program will include interviews with...”
- Joe Rogers
The Power of a Name
NEH grant for cataloging, to create an authority file system database, and work with Library of Congress (LC) and Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)
- Dr. Catherine Walsh
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library names Rachel McGarry and Nick Swenson to Board of Overseers
Museum and investment executives named to Board of Overseers
- Joe Rogers
Refresh of HMML brand identity and website
“Today we move forward with that name at the center of our new brand identity.”
- Joe Rogers
Advanced Imaging Data for HMML Palimpsest Project Hosted on OPenn
“The HMML palimpsest SJU Ms Frag 32 is a single parchment leaf from...”
- Dr. Melissa Moreton
New Preservation Projects — HMML Looks to the Future
“HMML’s cultural, religious, and geographic focus has expanded considerably since it began...”
Why Cultural Heritage Matters Program and Resources
“Why is a Cultural Heritage Matters is a TPT 30-minute program which highlights the reasons why preserving the past...”
“HMML@Home” — A New Way to Stay Connected
“HMML curators are continuing to work from home through the current global pandemic...”
HMML Launches New Series — HMML@Home
“HMML curators are continuing to work from home through the crisis...”
BBC Radio Airs Story on HMML and Fr. Columba
“BBC World Service’s Heart and Soul program aired a story featuring HMML’s work in preserving the manuscript collections of Timbuktu.”
Ancient Writing Revealed During HMML Palimpsest Imaging at Stanford's SLAC Lab
“HMML’s very own palimpsest fragment recently underwent high energy x-ray imaging at...”
- Dr. Melissa Moreton
HMML Fieldwork — Fr. Columba Travels to Mali, Renews Agreement
“In December, Fr. Columba traveled again to Mali to visiting HMML’s digitization sites in both...”
HMML Receives $1.4 Million NEH Grant to Preserve and Share Manuscript Heritage
“The grant will fund a three-year project to catalog 53,000 digitized manuscripts and create...”
- Joe Rogers
Governor Walz to Headline Event Honoring Minnesota's “Monument Man” of Endangered manuscripts
“Fr. Columba, executive director of the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (HMML) at Saint John’s University, is being honored for his work...”
- Joe Rogers
HMML Staff Make Scholarly Impact
“The staff at HMML continue to contribute broadly to the fields of history, cultural studies, and...”
- Dr. Melissa Moreton
National Endowment for the Humanities names Fr. Columba Stewart, OSB, the 2019 Jeffereson Lecturer
“Established by the NEH in 1972, the lectureship is the highest honor bestowed by the federal government for...”
- Joe Rogers
Seeing the Invisible — Multispectral Imaging of Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts
“This year marks twenty years since the first significant efforts were made to use multispectral imaging (MSI) to reveal hidden...”
- Dr. Melissa Moreton
vHMML Museum Goes Live
“vHMML Museum, a new component of the vHMML digital platform, went live on...”
- Joe Rogers
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library Mentioned in December 2018 National Geographic Magazine
“Materials curated by the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) are featured in the...”
HMML Opens New Exhibition “Starting Over — From Death Comes New Life”
“A new exhibition “Starting Over: From Death Comes New Life” opens Tuesday, Oct. 30 at the...”
HMML opens new exhibition “Mediterranean Travel — People, Places, Encounters”
“Mediterranean Travel” explores more than travel narratives and journals...
- Dr. Daniel K. Gullo
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library's Malta Study Center Completes Digitization Project at MUŻA — Mużew Nazzjonali tal-Arti
“HMML’s Malta Study Center has completed a digitization project with Heritage Malta to...”
- Dr. Daniel K. Gullo
Manuscripts Meet the World — Handwritten Books from Around the World
“The exhibition conveys the universality of handwriting, and shows how manuscripts...”
HMML opens new exhibition “Living Prayer — Prayer Brought to Life, Living Through Prayer”
“The exhibit is free and open to the public in HMML’s Reading Room and Alcuin Library’s Culhane Gallery...”
HMML Featured on CBS News’ Program 60 Minutes
HMML was featured on the CBS news program “60 Minutes”
Harvard Magazine Profiles HMML's Father Columba
“Harvard features an alumni profile of Father Columba Stewart in the January-February 2018 issue of...”
Permanent gallery for The Saint John’s Bible opens at Saint John’s University
“The Saint John’s Bible has traveled the world on exhibition and inspired people of all cultures and...”
HMML awarded a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for vHMML 3.0
“The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library an outright grant of...”
HMML Partners with the Institute for Advanced Study to Share Threatened Manuscript Heritage from Yemen and Neighboring Countries
“HMML is collaborating with the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, to provide open access to...”
Innovative Manuscript Research Tool on vHMML Now Available
“vHMML Reading Room will be a game-changing research tool for anyone interested in manuscript studies...”
HMML & Syriac Manuscripts — New Exhibition in HMML's Reading Room
“In 1715, Giuseppe Simone Assemani, then a titular bishop of Tyre, a Maronite scholar and...”
Artistic Director and Scribe of The Saint John's Bible Receives Apostolic Knighthood
“Donald Jackson received one of the highest honors bestowed upon laypeople by the Vatican.”
HMML’S Malta Study Center and the James Ford Bell Library Open Exhibition on the Great Siege of Malta
“The exhibition features more than twenty original rare books and manuscripts narrating the history of the...”
- Dr. Daniel K. Gullo
Father Columba Stewart Awarded 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship
“Father Columba Stewart has been awarded a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation...”
Ethiopia, Europe, and Collegeville — New Exhibition in our Reading Room
“Ethiopia has come to Collegeville in an exhibition at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library...”
HMML’S Malta Study Center Begins Digitization Partnership with the Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti
“The Malta Study Center at HMML has signed a partnership agreement with the Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti (FPM) to begin...”
- Dr. Daniel K. Gullo
The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library Launches vHMML
“HMML is very excited to announce the launch of vHMML (“Virtual HMML”)...”
HMML Receives Major Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
“The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library...”
HMML Digitizes Timbuktu's Historic Manuscript Collections
“HMML is creating digital records of more than 22,000 rare and historically-significant documents from a...”
HMML Urgently Working to Save Manuscripts in Iraq, Hopes for Safety of Collections in Syria
“Against a background of terrorism and the destruction of religious and cultural heritage sites, HMML...”
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library Joins the Renaissance Society of America
“The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) has just been named an Associate Organization of the Renaissance Society of America...”
HMML’S Malta Study Center Begins New Digitization Project at the National Archives of Malta
“Known as the Officium Civile Sacrae Inquisitionis (OSI) Fond, the collection contains records that date from...”
- Dr. Daniel K. Gullo
HMML Receives International SUCCEED Award
“The ceremony will be chaired by Nobel-Prize winning author Mario Vargas Llosa, the...”
HMML Receives Grant from Prince Claus Fund to Digitize Timbuktu Manuscripts
“When Timbuktu’s ancient libraries were in danger of destruction by Islamist militias during the...”
Council of the British Academy Bestows Edward Ullendorff Medal Upon Getatchew Haile
“The Council of the British Academy has bestowed the Edward Ullendorff Medal upon Dr. Getatchew Haile.”
HMML Awarded Grant to Develop Virtual HMML
“The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library has been awarded a grant of $350,930 from The Institute for Museum & Library Services for...”
HMML Completes Armenian Manuscript Project in Aleppo, Syria
“HMML-trained technicians in Aleppo, Syria, have completed the digitization of 225 Armenian manuscripts...”
HMML Awarded National Medal of Honor
“The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library has been awarded the National Medal for Museum and Library Service...”
HMML Awarded $3 Million Grant from Arcadia Fund
“A $3 million grant from the Arcadia Fund of London has been awarded to the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library...”
HMML Begins First Manuscript Preservation Project in Jerusalem
“HMML has begun manuscript preservation work in Jerusalem...”
Researcher Identifies Second-Oldest Ethiopian Manuscript in Existence in HMML’s Archives
“Ted Erho, a doctoral student at Durham University in England, recently spent six weeks at HMML studying...”