Virtual Exhibitions

Yesterday we moved a very old bicycle from the second floorto the first.  It was the type of bicyclebuilt in the late 1800s with an extraordinarily large front wheel and a very tiny back one.  Needless to say, this made the entire thing rather unwieldy, particularly because we couldn’t simply roll it.  It has about half of each of its tires left, and over the years they have turned red and started falling apart.  That and its not considered proper museum procedure to...

I’m just wrapping up my first week interning at the BarnumMuseum, and I’ve already seen and done so many interesting things that it’sdifficult to figure out where to start. First of all, it’s amazing just to be around so many artifacts.  Sometimes it’s easy to forget just how oldeverything is, and then all at once I’ll suddenly realize how much a certainitem has been through.  Yesterday, whilehelping to put away China, I looked down and saw P...