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 ...

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 ...

GBH in Boston is rolling out a new collection of free-to-use digital multimedia resources to help middle and high school educators teach American history. The collection includes content produced by ...

In summer 2006, approximately 800 ancient archaeological objects were wrapped, boxed, and gently transferred from the Rose Art Museum to the Classical Artifact Research Collection (CLARC) in the Rabb ...

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.