As part of its online bilingual initiative, El Museo en tu Casa, El Museo del Barrio recently launched an online archive of exhibition catalogues and brochures from the past fifty years. As important scholarly resources, the digitized publications feature illustrations and texts by artists, scholars, museum professionals, and other experts, that in many cases represent the first, and in some instances, the only existing references on particular artists and/or subjects. Though previously available to researchers by appointment, full text digital reproductions of these materials are now available for open access to the public for the first time. 

Materials include catalogs from groundbreaking exhibitions like La herencia artística de Puerto Rico, co-hosted by El Museo and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1973; pioneering group exhibitions dedicated to Taino visual culture and the Nuyorican art collective, Taller Boricua; catalogues produced to celebrate institutional milestones, including the three part 25th anniversary exhibition series; and early monographs for such important artists as Myrna Baéz, Rafael Montañez Ortiz, Pepón Osorio, and Carmen Herrera, among others.

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