Outreach
Corkscrews from the Ziegelmaier Collection

Learn more about one of the Hearst's more unusual collections — that of corkscrews and bar-related paraphernalia — by clicking here.


Reclaiming Antiquity: Plato at the Hearst Museum

Restoring a legacy: UC Berkeley graduate students bring long-neglected Classical casts back to life.

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Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative

Read more about Niek Veldhuis (Department of Near Eastern Studies, and Faculty Curator of Mesopotamian Epigraphy at the Hearst Museum) and his work in preserving and archiving fragile cuneiform tablet collections — the earliest of which date from 3200 B.C. — by clicking here.