As part of its Letters to the Future exhibition, the Bklyn Public Library is loaning art to patrons. A jrnlst wrote to ask me abt precedents. I'm ✍️ an email that lists *lots* of museum — esp campus museum — art-loan pgms, but I've got only a cpl *library* art-loan pgms. Might anyone know of others?
Did you know that in 1951, MoMA established the Art Lending Service (ALS)—which enabled the public to take home contemporary paintings & sculpture (for a nominal charge)—including works by Calder, Hepworth, Motherwell, and Pollock? The program ended in 1982. www.moma.org/interactives...
MoMA through TimeAn incomplete history of MoMA and MoMA PS1, as told through objects in the archives.www.moma.org
The Ann Arbor District Library! aadl.org/collections
Nashville public does this too - library.nashville.gov/services/met...
Metro Arts Lending Library Collectionlibrary.nashville.gov
Kettle's Yard (one of my favorite house museums) in Cambridge has an Art for Students loan program. www.kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk/whats-on/art...
Art for Students 2025/26Are you a student at the University of Cambridge or Anglia Ruskin University? Borrow a work of art from the Kettle's Yard collection.www.kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk