Artifacts Telling Stories
Artifacts carry an array of stories from who used it, who made it, what was it used for, and even how it came to the museum. Boston Children’s Museum’s collection…
Category: Museum Collections
Our Collections Department share stories of the Museum’s history and the special items that have helped defined us over the last century.
What’s Hiding in Collections? Ancient Egyptian Artifacts!
It’s been quite an exciting beginning to my internship at the Museum. The first month has gone by in the blink of an eye! I never guessed how extensive and…
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…
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…
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…
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder…I hope
Collections have been missing from the blog lately, and as it is already February, I am compelled to make up for that absence. We have been keeping quite busy lately.…
Storytelling
Objects tell stories. Unfortunately, they cannot tell them on their own, they have to be written down or shared by the people who know the objects best—their owners. In the…
The Power of Play 