Iris photography has recently become popular online. With this newfound popularity, it’s worth looking at the history of examining human irises, how people use the images today, and why we don’t offer this type of photography at the museum.

For the first time, you can now experience the Museum of the Eye® in more languages than English! We have just published our first multilingual tour on the museum’s mobile app in Spanish, Mandarin, and Tagalog.

To mark the end of summertime, we answer a question from a visitor about the history of sunglasses.

As the museum marks our first anniversary of being open to the public, we look back on a year of firsts and some surprisingly touching visitor contributions.

In recognition of Black History Month in February and Women’s History Month in March, the Museum of the Eye is featuring a short video on the history of women and minorities in medicine, highlighting Black women ophthalmologists and the Minority Ophthalmology Mentoring Program.