A week in the museum

This week my work was centered around the exhibits in the museum building. It was a particularly rainy day so there were very few visitors but as was to be expected, a couple of new discoveries were made! The most of these discoveries was perhaps the identification of a rather unusual pen that I worked with the CEO and other volunteers to identify. It is a pen fashioned from a horseshoe crab's tail. I was also able to start storing objects that do not necessarily enhance the museum's narrative of cracker history - like a Christian Dior garment from sometime between 1964-1973 - a date range I determined based on the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union logo on the tag and a documented history of the union's nine different logos. I have created a labeling system for artifacts entered into storage and this has been warmly received as it could allow the museum to collaborate with other institutions, potentially loaning some of the museum's collection to other facilities' exhibits.