Sometimes Good Things Come To An End
Today is my last day as the Spring 2014 Growdon Collections Intern. It’s bittersweet because on the one hand I’m leaving behind two new online collections of some of the…
Author: Jessica Rymer
I am currently studying towards an M.A. in Historical Archaeology in addition to being the current Growdon Collections intern at Boston Children's Museum. I've dug in Sicily, Virginia, and Maryland and this summer will be digging for the first time in Massachusetts. My favorite thing by far about working in collections at BCM is getting to handle whole artifacts instead of tiny little pieces!
Sometimes You Have to Play Detective
The Museum has many different countries represented in its collections, and sometimes this means playing detective to figure out what a word or phrase on an object means. Sometimes this…
Sometimes You Just Get Lucky
Trying to find information about objects that were added to collections a century ago is not always easy, especially when the object in question is more than a hundred years…
The Power of Play 