Kamila Kudelska

MS 410 Thomas P. Cuffe Collection. Gift of Mary C. Schiendler. P.410.003
February 8, 2019

Museum Minute: Frederic Remington and Buffalo Bill

The McCracken Research Library receives hundreds of collections of journals, notebooks and photographs annually. Often, library staff are not able to go…

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January 31, 2019

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…

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Watermelon patch gun. Gift of the Olin Corporation, Winchester Arms Collection.1988.8.3209
January 25, 2019

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…

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January 17, 2019

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…

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January 3, 2019

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…

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Josh Elliot (b. 1973). Morning Blue, n.d. Oil on linen. Museum Purchase from William E. Weiss Memorial Fund. 1.18 (detail)
December 27, 2018

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…

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