On July 30, 2023, a baby sperm whale was found washed up on the Duxbury Beach Reservation. Katherine Doyle, the collections manager of the natural history collection at the University of Massachusetts ...

The Photographic History Collection (PHC) is part of the Division of Information Technology & Communication. There are approximately 200,000 photographs in various formats representing the work of ...

This year, NMNH director Kirk Johnson helped spearhead an effort to add up the collections of the world’s largest museums Jack Tamisiea A small fraction of the more than 50 million specimens housed in ...

A bored researcher, boxes of left-behind Husky homework and the painstakingly documented entomology specimens of a 1960s faculty member formed the chrysalis for the Michigan Technological University ...

Not many people today can say they have touched a Roman coin from around 100 CE. Reza Ramji ’28, a student from the Classics Department and a coin cataloguer at Princeton University’s Numismatic ...

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Ohio History Connection Curator of Natural History Dave Dyer holds a mastodon tooth he pulled from a shelf in a natural history storage space in OHC's new $22 million Collections Care Facility next to ...

There is no greater collector or no greater fan of Napoleon Bonaparte than Pierre-Jean Chalençon. He is easily the most prolific collector of Napoleonic material, reportedly estimated to be more than ...

Mel Neal didn’t remember the exact year he and lifelong friend Frank Ward acquired the first piece in their sprawling collection of U.S. military collectibles, but it was sometime in the late 1970s.