Show search results for
“Erasing the Extinct: The Hunt for Caribbean Monk Seals and Museum Collection Practices”
Article from a special issue on animal history.
“O desaparecimento do que está extinto: a caça às focas-monge-do-caribe e as práticas de acervos museológicos”
Article from a special issue on animal history.
Mobility | Welcome to the Anthropocene
This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands”—written and curated by historian Nina Möllers.
About the exhibition | Welcome to the Anthropocene
This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands”—written and curated by historian Nina Möllers.
The zoological collections of the Port Essington Expedition | Ludwig Leichhardt
In this chapter of the virtual exhibition “Ludwig Leichhardt: A German Explorer’s Letters Home from Australia,” cultural studies researcher Heike Hartmann presents the deeds, fate, and legacy of Dr. Leichhardt’s companion John Gilbert.
Episode 5: “Enchanted Objects”
In the fifth episode of Archival Ecologies, Jayme Collins meets Richard Forrest, steward of the Lytton Museum and Archives, to talk about the devastating losses sustained by the municipal repository through the Lytton fire and to contemplate the futures of collections in digitized records and photographs, and 3-D printed copies of objects.
Episode 2: “Salvage”
In this first episode of Archival Ecologies, Jayme Collins follows one of the many stories of salvage and recovery after the devastating 2021 wildfire in Lytton, Canada—the story of the Lytton Chinese History Museum and its founder.