When I tell people I manage the Corporate Archive Blueprints for the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, they immediately assume I am Harry Potter with the Marauders Map and […]
epiCENTER: Explore the CENTER of it all with our staff!
Enjoy the observations and interests of the people who work at the Center of the West here in our staff blog. Just note that these are the personal perspectives of individual staff members, and are not meant to be official representations of Center expertise or policy.
Win stuff
Yes, you can win stuff UPDATE: Click here to see the entries so far! We launched our Online Collection—information and images of more than 22,000 of our museum objects— over […]
FAQ: Hair Pipes
Q: What are “hair pipes?” “Hair pipes” are actually long cylindrical beads made from conch shells or bone that were worn for personal adornment. They were common in hair ornaments, […]
Raffles, Raffles, and More Raffles!
As many of you know, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West sells raffle tickets for a different car each year. We get questions all the time about the car, […]
The One with the Tapestry
My first textile conservation project at the Center of the West was a sixteenth century European tapestry privately owned by one of the Conservation Internship Program’s most generous donors (she […]
Hummels: Not So Humble After All
Some of the objects we’ve treated in the conservation lab this summer have been pretty high-profile. In case I haven’t name-dropped Buffalo Bill enough yet, we’ve worked on both his […]
