Collection Spotlight - Borobodur
In the 1980s, Dr. Walter Spink and our photographer, Patrick Young traveled with graduate students to Java to shoot this amazing Borobodur monument. Over the last year, over a thousand images of the Borobodur monument have been digitized. read more
Welcome to the Visual Resources Collections
The VRC maintains nearly two million images of art. The collection’s roots are more than 90 years old and developed as a teaching collection to support faculty and students. As the University of Michigan’s History of Art evolved and became a center for scholarship, so did the VRC collection become an international resource.
NewsRSS
- Emeriti Appreciation Event - The VRC recognizes the importance of some of our unique and prolific History of Art professors February 14, 2013
- VRC Receives Donation of Islamic Manuscript Archive from Dr. Marianna Shreve Simpson January 17, 2013
- Did You Know? That the VRC houses original faculty-created photography from all over the world? December 11, 2012
- Diane Kirkpatrick Collection Announced: The more than 30,000 images collected by HART Emerita and former Chair are being processed for greater access. September 21, 2012


