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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...

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...

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...

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...

Coffee pot, 20-33-60/D1465, shown before and after conservation treatment A sneak peek at one of the first objects being treated in our Conservation Lab for the upcoming exhibit Resetting the Table: Food and Our Changing Tastes. This colorful coffee pot...

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...