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Monster Tree

Several of the collections staff are starting to work on an exhibition for next summer on “the west” in fiction and reality. Right now we’re combing through the collections to find the objects we want to use and this handbill made my day when my colleague Karen Schoenewaldt showed it to me last week. Laid …

The Rosenweb

After last week’s blog post in which I trailed off into a discussion of the Old 100th psalm tune, I got to wondering if there were any recordings of what the Bay Psalm Book’s music would really have sounded like. Lo and behold, the folks at Smithsonian Folkway records put out such a record, way …

All That Glitters

Our newest exhibit, Friend or Faux, opens tomorrow and we’ll be kicking off our programming for the show this Saturday (11/14) at noon with the first of a series of seminars on authenticity. This inaugural seminar focuses on silver and will presented by David Barquist, Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Philadelphia Museum of …