It's #MuseumWeek & today we are sharing a #BehindTheScenesMW collections project where we re-housed an #orangutan skeleton. This beautifully prepared adult female from Borneo is one of our oldest comparative anatomy skeletons, dating from the 1880s. #MuseumLife#CuratorialWorkπ§΅
ALT Hiroshi Yoshida, Moraine Lake, 1925, color woodblocks, Museum purchase, Marjorie Schechter Bronfman '38 and Gerald Bronfman Endowment for Works on Paper 2020.20.5β£
ALT Kawase Hasui, Spring Rain at the Gokoku Temple, impression 1933-1945, plate 1932, color woodblocks Museum purchase, Marjorie Schechter Bronfman '38 and Gerald Bronfman Endowment for Works on Paper 2020.20.1β£
The objects on display at most museums are just the tip of the iceberg - what mysteries might lurk in the stores of the Garstang collection?
#curatorialwork#storestories
Our curatorial team is hard at work in the stores, working with the collection...can you guess which of John Garstang's excavations this pottery came from?
#curatorialwork#allpotsandnoplay