Decorative Arts Trust Prize for Excellence and Innovation
From The Decorative Arts Trust:
Decorative Arts Trust Prize for Excellence and Innovation, $100,000
Application due by 30 June 2025
The nomination deadline for this year’s $100,000 Decorative Arts Trust Prize or Excellence and Innovation is Monday, 30 June 2025. The Prize funds outstanding projects that advance the public’s appreciation of decorative art, fine art, architecture, or landscape. Awarded to nonprofit organizations in the United States, the Prize recognizes exceptional scholarly endeavors such as museum exhibitions, print and digital publications, conservation and preservation projects, and online databases. The Trust’s selection committee aims to recognize impactful and original projects that advance scholarship in the field while reaching a broad audience. Recent recipients include the Drayton Hall Preservation Trust; the Concord Museum; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; the Black Craftspeople Digital Archive; and Craft in America.
Cultural institutions are encouraged to learn more about the nomination process here»
Conference | History of Map Collecting
From ArtHist.net:
History of Map Collecting: Vienna, Central Europe, and Beyond
University of Vienna, 12 June 2025
Organized by Silvia Tammaro and Eva Chodějovská
Organised jointly by the Vienna Center for the History of Collecting (University of Vienna, Austria) and the Moravian Library in Brno (Czech Republic), the conference will be accompanied by an exhibition on Bernard Paul Moll (1697–1780) and his map collection, formed in 18th-century Vienna and now preserved at the Moravian Library. To register, please send an email to silvia.tammaro@univie.ac.at.
p r o g r a m
9.00 Welcome and Opening
• Markus Ritter (Head of Department of Art History, University of Vienna)
• Tomáš Kubíček (Director of the Moravian Library Brno)
• Eva Chodějovská and Silvia Tammaro (Conference Organizers)
9.30 Composite Atlases
• Markus Heinz (Berlin State Library) — Collectors’ Practices: A Composite Atlas Built on an Editor’s Atlas
• Elisabeth Zeilinger (Austrian National Library, Vienna) — Aspects of Collecting in the Mirror of the Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem
• Maretta Johnson (Atlas Van Stolk, Rotterdam/Amsterdam University) and Anne-Rieke van Schaik (Amsterdam University) — Maps as Memory Mirrors: The Construction of a Historical Narrative in the Album of Willem Luytzs van Kittensteyn (1613)
11.00 Coffee Break
11.30 A Passion for Maps: Bernard Paul Moll’s Eighteenth-Century Composite Atlas
• Eva Chodějovská and Jiří Dufka — Exhibition launch and discussion
12.00 Lunch
13.15 Collectors
• Jan Mokre (Austrian National Library, Vienna) — Map Collectors and Collections in Vienna, 17th to 19th Centuries
• Silvia Tammaro (University of Vienna) — Artaria & Co. and the Market of Maps and Art Objects
• Šárka Steinová and Filip Paulus (National Archives of the Czech Republic, Prague) — Franz Leonard Herget: Creator of the Collections of the Czech Estates Engineering School
14.45 Coffee Break
15.00 Map Collections: Between State and Private
• Martijn Storms (Leiden University Library) — The 19th-Century Private Map Collectors in the Netherlands
• Zsolt Török (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) — Concealed Composite Atlases: Maps in a 19th-Century Hungarian Petty Noble Art Collection
• Katie Parker (Royal Geographic Society, London) — The Map Office of the Nation: Collecting Maps at the Royal Geographical Society
16.30 Closing Discussion
17.30 Guided Tour to the Woldan Map Collection
• Petra Svatek (Austrian Academy of Sciences) — Meet at Dr.-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz, 1010 Vienna (in front of the Jesuit Church).
Enfilade 
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