Hidden Object Highlight: Oware
This blog post was written by Kelsey Petersen, the Elvira Growdon Intern for Collections and Archives Management for fall 2018. Kelsey is currently a second year M.A. candidate at Tufts…
Author: Rachel Farkas
I started at Boston Children’s Museum as an educator in the East Asia Department in 2008. Because I had experience working with collections, I gradually began to use these objects in my programs. Now, four years later, I am the Collections Manager. You can guess which area of collections is still my favorite.
Hidden Object Highlight – Fijian Fork
Hannah Barber is the Elvira Growdon Intern for Collections and Archives Management for summer 2018. Hannah is a current student at Syracuse University’s School of Visual and Performing Arts pursuing…
Hidden Objects Highlight – Brittany Headdress
Hannah Barber is the Elvira Growdon Intern for Collections and Archives Management for summer 2018. Hannah is a current student at Syracuse University’s School of Visual and Performing Arts pursuing…
Hidden Object Highlight
Hannah Barber is the Elvira Growdon Intern for Collections and Archives Management for summer 2018. Hannah is a current student at Syracuse University’s School of Visual and Performing Arts pursuing…
The Fish of Māui : Te Ika a Māui
Kolie Swavely is the Elvira Growdon Intern for Collections Management and Curatorial Practice for summer 2017. Her work at Boston Children’s Museum has focused on cataloging and digitizing the Polynesian collection…
Eleanor’s Adventures in Wonderland
Two summers ago, I went “down the rabbit hole” of dollhouse furniture in the Museum’s collection (https://bostonchildrensmuseum.wordpress.com/2014/06/10/down-the-rabbit-hole/) With hundreds of pieces of previously uncatalogued dollhouse furnishings, one of my interns…
Borrowed and Returned
One of the most frequently asked questions I have here in collections is, “How did the Museum get all this stuff?!” (Considering how eclectic our collections are, that question is…
Down the Rabbit Hole
For the past few weeks, I have immersed myself in the Museum’s dollhouse collection. Let me just say, it is extensive! Not only do we have a number of wonderful…
The Power of Play 