The McCracken Research Library receives hundreds of collections of journals, notebooks and photographs annually. Often, library staff are not able to go through it all. But when library fellows come […]
Museum Minute: A Monumental Portrait
Frank Perley Fairbanks was a classmate of Phimister Proctor’s, the famous American sculptor, at the American Academy in Rome. Fairbanks who himself was a portraitist admired Proctor greatly. So much […]
Museum Minute: The Watermelon Patch Gun
The Cody Firearms Museum is home to more than 7,000 firearms but there’s one that is particularly popular with the public. That gun is a percussion trap gun. Ashley Hlebinsky, […]
Museum Minute: Challenges of Collecting Sensitive Material
Museums are collections of objects that tell a story about something. At the Plains Indian Museum, the objects tell the story of the Plains Indian people. But sometimes the materials […]
Museum Minute: A High School’s Taxidermy Collection Becomes a Museum’s
The Draper Natural History Museum was founded in 1998. The founding curator, Dr. Charles Preston, had a surprise collection waiting for him when he arrived. “I was told of a […]
Museum Minute: Morning Blue
Josh Elliot is a Montana born and raised artist of Western landscape. Karen McWhorter, the Scarlett Curator of Western American Art for the Whitney Western Art Museum, said Elliot’s landscapes […]
