Mysteries in the Collection
发表于不时地,我们反对处理项目sidered “Found in Collection” pieces. This doesn’t mean that we never knew these items existed and just came across them suddenly. (Although this does happen occasionally) Typically these things were dropped off by an anonymous donor or left behind after a curator moved on to retirement or another institution. So we end up with things without a history of ownership or use. Sometimes, we don’t even know for sure what the heck the item is and have to spend a great deal of time doing research to figure it out.
最近,32名第二次世界大战海报成为收集物品中的最新产品,以获得我们的注意。在过去的59年里,他们已被堆积在抽屉里,并标有“不成功”或非收集片。他们最初是从1954年收到的弗吉尼亚战争博物馆的捐款。多年来,策展人知道他们存在,但没有人认为他们的收集良好的补充。可能是因为一些我们已经拥有的海报重复了一些。或者可能是因为纸的脆弱性和涉及的大尺寸。虽然一些海报小于8 x 10,但其他海报高于40英寸高。它看起来很奇怪,但长期和不受干扰的存储是海报可能发生的最好的东西之一。
蒸汽机车印刷品– Artifact of the Month
发表于博物馆的一个不幸情况是,在大多数情况下,在案例中只有一个小部分,在我们的情况下,集合可以在给定时间显示。为了帮助打击这一点,我们决定包含月份博客文章的对象,这将突出显示不在展示的文物,以便允许我们的读者更熟悉我们的收藏。除此之外,我们所有的物品都应该在某些时候处于黎架!
For our first object of the month, I have chosen an eye-catching lithograph print showing a steam locomotive of the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad Company, ca 1859-1860. The museum purchased the piece in September of 1945, and it appears that the print has only been on display once, for a quick exhibition on October 6-7, 1956 that honored the visit to The Mariners’ Museum of the Mid-Eastern Region National Model Railroad Association (what a title!) convention.




你一定是登录to post a comment.