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Annex Catalog Crew

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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 at the Museum accessible to Harvard faculty and students, external researchers, and other stakeholders. Each member of the Catalog Crew is committed to overseeing the ethical care and stewardship of the extensive archaeological collections held by the Peabody Museum.... Read more about Annex Catalog Crew

Peruvian Collections Research

 


Ceramic rim sherd with polychrome designs, 48-18-30/5793.8


Today’s post from Collections Technician Zach Williams tells us about archaeological cataloging and digitization to support research use of the collection:  

The Peabody serves as a repository for cultural material from around the world, and my work cataloging often supports colleagues, descendant communities, professors, students, and researchers who are accessing these collections. Collections research visits vary and can range from viewing objects to more in-depth research analysis with analytical sampling, and everything in between.... Read more about Peruvian Collections Research

Moth Mitigation

Gloved hand on fur

Staff at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology are diligently working to mitigate a webbing clothes moth (Tineola bisselliella) infestation discovered in June of 2016 in the largest ethnographic artifact storage room in the historic museum...

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Hello Friends

Group of people sitting in a museum storage room

Welcome to the Harvard Peabody Museum Collections Division blog! What’s a Collections Division you ask? At the Peabody, it encompasses the departments of Collections Management and Access, Archives, Registration, Conservation, and Collections Technologies...

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