I took a selfie to prove to myself that I exist! ~ Unknown
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day. It's simply meant to celebrate museums and their collections.
Here's my selfie from my museum today, taken with the help of a timer. This is what the wonderful world of museum collections storage looks like.
If you ever have the chance to do a behind the scenes tour of museum collections, this may not be what you see. Museums offer tours of storage, but you will likely see the cool stuff. At the Museum of Northern Arizona, this would include the cases of whole ceramic vessels, Hopi jewelry and kachina dolls.
These boxes are filled with ceramic sherds and lithics, grindstone and organic samples. Unless you love plainware or are writing a dissertation on metates, you will likely never see this space. So here's your insider's glimpse into a collections storage facility and the life of an anthropology collections assistant.
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