of available visual resources for teaching and studying the Cathedral led him to create the Amiens Cathedral Imaging Project. It was the inaugural project for the Visual Media Center, both of which were supported with a funding from the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH). The multimedia website consisted of computer-generated images and animations, drawings, and photographs of the cathedral. The website also contained recreations of the Medieval composer Pérotin's music, primary documents associated with the cathedral, supplemented by secondary information from Murray's own monograph. After the success of the Amiens Project, the Media Center launched the History of Architecture website, which built upon Murray's project. The website is a database of visual images, in the format of QuickTime VR panoramas ('nodes') of various buildings from across the world, representing a wide range of architectural styles. The aim of the project was to provide digital resources for teaching architectural history in American schools. The project was funded by the NEH, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the Office of the Provost at Columbia University. In 2008, Murray and Andrew Tallon led the Mapping Gothic France project, funded by a four-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The website is a database of over 30,000 digital images, covering 200 Gothic cathedrals in France and England. Other features include plans, elevations, history, and bibliography related to each individual buildings. As of 2017, funding for the project had ended and some of the website's content remained incomplete. Awards Throughout his career, Murray has received many honours and awards for his work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1988. Murray's photographs from that time are held in the Courtauld Institute of Arts' Conway Library of art and architecture, and, as of 2017, are being digitised. In 1992, he was appointed by the French Ministry of Culture to the scientific committee overseeing the restoration of Amiens Cathedral. In January 2020, Murray received an honorary doctorate from the University of Picardy Jules Verne. He is also an honorary citizen of Amiens. Expertise and scholarship The development of Gothic as a style in Europe Murray argues that Gothic architecture grew out of desires to replicate shapes and images from the natural world (for instance, trees and branches carved in stone), and was a way to look back to admired historic architectural design by the Merovingians, and also looking forwards and creating something new,