This month, #ConnectingCollections is exploring our favorite type of book: catalogues! Prior to the advent of the Internet and online databases, museums published print catalogues to share images and information about their collections. Catalogues—print and digital—continue to be produced today, both to document collections and to create a lasting record of otherwise temporary exhibitions.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ In addition to the print catalogues you can purchase from the Getty bookstore, documenting special exhibitions like "Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins" and the upcoming "Rubens: Picturing Antiquity," a series of Getty antiquities catalogues is also available on our Quire digital publishing platform. You can zoom deep into images, explore different angles of objects, and learn the stories behind these artworks. These open-access publications are all available to read or download for free.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ So far, we've published digital catalogues of our collections of ancient mosaics, ambers, lamps, and Sout...