# Blog Welcome to the Collections Division Blog The Peabody Museum's Collections Division encompasses the departments of Collections Management and Research Access, Archives, Registration, and Conservation. Our blog shows you a bit of the daily work of museum professionals as we care for and make collections accessible. For more behind-the-scenes images, follow us on Instagram! 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The collection as a whole tells us about a family that pushed... description [### The Marshall IMLS Grant and Resources for Reparative Description ](/blog/marshall-imls-grant-and-resources-reparative-description) August 07, 2023 Woman and her daughter standing, with Lorna Marshall squatting next to them, on Fritz Metzger's farm 2001.29.2352 Describing archival collections from marginalized and oppressed communities is hard work for archivists. It’s emotional and triggering when... description [### Rewriting the Past: The Problem of Historic Language in Museum Collections ](/blog/rewriting-the-past) August 08, 2022 Print from the Marshall Family Archives ≠Toma (Khuan//a's son) holding an axe 2001.29.28859 The Marshall Family Archives Digitization Project is one of the Peabody Museum’s most ambitious digitization projects to date. With generous funding from the... description [### Connecting Pacific Communities with Collections ](/blog/hocef) April 11, 2022 One of the largest Pacific Islander communities in the United States is based in and around the Salt Lake City area of Utah, home to more than 40,000 Hawaiians, Tongans, Samoans, Fijians, CHamoru, and other Micronesians. Two thousand miles away, Harvard’s... description [### Chac Mool installation ](/blog/chac-mool-installation) September 18, 2021 Mayan Chac Mool, 92-50-20/C1099 This plaster cast is a model of a Chac Mool statue originally found at the Post-Classic Maya site of Chichen Itza in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Along with approximately one thousand other casts in the collection, this one... description [### Marshall Family Archives Digitization Project ](/blog/marshall-family-archives-digitization-project) July 01, 2021 //Kushay telling Laurence, Ledimo, and John that //Ao has gone to the farms, 2001.29.621 In June of 1950, Laurence K. Marshall, former chairperson of Raytheon Company, and his 17-year-old son John trekked into the deserts of Southern Africa seeking the... description [### Inman Portrait Collections ](/blog/inman-portrait-collections) May 01, 2021 Jaidyn Probst with a portrait of Rant-che-wai-me (Female Flying Pigeon), Iowa. 82-51-10/57030 A guest blog post from Jaidyn Probst, a second year Harvard student and member of the Lower Sioux Indian community. Jaidyn is a concentrator in Cognitive... description [### Egyptian Collections Research ](/blog/egyptian-collections-research) March 19, 2021 Mesa'eed, one of the sites excavated by George Reisner and his associates. Mohammedani Ibrahim Ibrahim (expedition photographer), Mesaid, Cemetery from West, April 1, 1913, Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition photograph A886_NS The... description [### Salt Prints Research ](/blog/salt-prints-research) September 02, 2020 Portrait of Wi-ga-sa-pi, 2004.1.125.33 As a research institution, the Peabody Museum hosts hundreds of research visits every year. This post from our Senior Archivist, Katherine Satriano, tells us about a past visit from Dr. Arthur McClelland of Harvard’s... description [### Conservation for Publication Photography ](/blog/conservation-publication-photography) July 23, 2020 Yukuna headdress, 53-47-30/7499 Welcome to the Peabody Museum’s conservation lab! In the lab we treat and care for objects for a variety of reasons including exhibits, loans, and publication photography. For publication photography, we work... description [### Collections Management Highlights ](/blog/collections-management-highlights) June 30, 2020 The Peabody Museum is currently closed due to social distancing protocols and most Museum staff have shifted to working from home. During this time when the team is physically away from the collections, we will share some of the projects we have worked on... description [### Annex Catalog Crew ](/blog/annex-catalog-crew) May 05, 2020 Welcome to the Peabody Museum’s Annex! The Annex is our main archaeological collection storage as well as a cataloging, research and teaching space. The Annex Catalog Crew is busy at work each day helping to make the inorganic archaeological collections... description - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")