HUAM announced the launch of Collections Online, a searchable Web-based database of more than 60,000 works of art from the collections of Harvard's three art museums. Collections Online makes it possible for scholars, researchers, and the general public to access textual information on about one-third of the Art Museums' more than 150,000 objects. Additionally, images of about 11,000 works illustrate the objects documented by the database. The database can be found on the Art Museums' home page at www.artmuseums.harvard.edu and clickin on Collections Online.

HUAM also announced that they have received a $705,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund two three-year postdoctoral fellowships in conservation science at the Straus Center for conservation. The grant will enable scholars to pursue postdoctoral scientific research within an art museum setting, an area that is currently underdeveloped in the United States.