Magic Lantern: Study, Safeguard, Uses and Reuses in 19th Century Portugal Among the music-theatrical genres in which magic lanterns were used, “mágica” was widely accepted on the Portuguese stages from 1840 to 1910, and this success has branched out to Brazil. These plays had a simple dramatic text, themes related to the wonderful and/or the…

The B-magic project will write the as yet unwritten history of the magic lantern as a mass medium in Belgium. In doing so, it will make an essential contribution to the study of the country’s cultural history as well as to international media historiography. Detailed information about this project can be found here. Team and partners:…

A Million Pictures: Magic Lantern Slide Heritage as Artefacts in the Common European History of Learning This project ran from June 2015 until May 2018 and aimed to address the sustainable preservation of the massive, untapped heritage resource of the magic lantern. A Million Pictures was a collaborative research project between researchers from Utrecht University (NL), University…

This project from the Stichting Academisch Erfgoed aims to create an inventory of the slide collections to be found in university archives in the Netherlands. More information about this project can be found here.

This project, lead by Dr Martyn Jolly at the Australian National University, aims to discover and analyse the large number of glass magic lantern slides that remain under-used in Australian public collections. More information about this project can be found here.