The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has granted the Walters Art Museum $315,000 for a 2 1/2 year project to digitize, catalog and distribute 105 illuminated medieval manuscripts. Representing diverse Byzantine, Greek, Armenian, Ethiopian, Dutch, English and Central European cultures, this project, entitled Parchment to Pixel: Creating a Digital Resource of Medieval Manuscripts, will allow for the digitization of approximately 38,000 pages of ancient text and 3,500 pages of illumination.

The Christmas Story: Picturing the Birth of Christ in Medieval Manuscripts
The Walters Art Museum
December 3, 2009 – February 28, 2010

Shrunken Treasures: Miniaturization in Books and Art
August 15–November 8, 2009
Walters Art Museum

Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece
Oct. 11, 2009–Jan. 3, 2010
Walters Art Museum

The Walters Art Museum will offer visitors a rare opportunity to examine the ancient Egyptians’ fascination with human and animal mummies in the focus show Mummified, on view Nov. 15, 2008 to Nov. 8, 2009.