I love taking the time to make Plastazote bases for specimens so they don't roll around in their trays. I find it very relaxing and it protects the specimens from damage 😊

These are cubic fluorite crystals from USA

#minerals #fluorite #curation #MuseumWork #museums #NaturalHistory

Big throwback to the early 1990s when I was just beginning my 30+ year career in the museum field. Why does it feel like yesterday? #MuseumProfessional #MuseumWork #1990s #ColonialWilliamsburg #CWF #HistoricTrades #Throwback

There's never been a more critical time to support our #independent museum.

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#Digitize our Physical Objects;
#Reinstall our Permanent Collection of #Sounds;
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#Collections #Museum #MuseumWork #MuseumOfPortableSound #SupportUs #IndependentMuseum

Colour photo from yesterday vs archival black & white image from 1970 - same ancient Roman glass flask, dated to about 275-325 CE. Both pics are important to keep as objects can change, even deteriorate, over the years.

#MuseumWork #CollectionCare #Photography #Glass #technology #Archaeology #Documentation @ROMtoronto

Reflecting on 2022 & Kore670 loan to @romtoronto, I didn't really "see" this pic, though I took it! Acropolis Museum courier documents the condition of the kore before crating & transport back to Greece.

#KoreCheck #Kore670 #2022recap #HappyNewYear #MuseumWork #documentation

RT @KaySunahara@twitter.com

A favourite bit of ancient mosaic #glass @ROMtoronto@twitter.com 3.5 × 3.2cm shard with the eye & upper gills of a colorful fish from Alexandria, #Egypt about 100BCE-100CE
#MuseumWork #fish

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/KaySunahara/status/1604954479811612692

A favourite bit of ancient mosaic #glass @ROMtoronto 3.5 × 3.2cm shard with the eye & upper gills of a colorful fish from Alexandria, #Egypt about 100BCE-100CE
#MuseumWork #fish

A favourite bit of ancient mosaic #glass @ROMtoronto 3.5 × 3.2cm shard with the eye & upper gills of a colorful fish from Alexandria, #Egypt about 100BCE-100CE
#MuseumWork #fish

One of my favourite Romano-British sherds
@ROMtoronto
"London Ware" style bowl fragment, only 6.5cm tall but you can still see the pinpoints where the potter applied a compass to engrave the semi-circle motifs! c. 75-200 CE #MuseumWork #ChaîneOpératoire #Ceramics #Archaeology

One of my favourite Romano-British sherds
@ROMtoronto
"London Ware" style bowl fragment, only 6.5cm tall but you can still see the pinpoints where the potter applied a compass to engrave the semi-circle motifs! c. 75-200 CE #MuseumWork #ChaîneOpératoire #Ceramics #Archaeology

Just wore my nitrile gloves so long that my fingers are pruny. It's gross. #museumwork

Original art for Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz was originally published on 12/9/1981. What beautiful scribbling! I love Sally's careful consideration in panel two and the motion in the third panel.

#peanuts #CharlesSchulz #Schulz100 #Snoopy #CharlieBrown #comic #comics #comichistory #comicshistory #museum #museumwork #research

Looking at Charles Schulz's single-panel Peanuts dailies for an exhibition project. This one was originally published on December 30, 1989. He was an absolute master of the space he was allotted.

This one reminds me of a story he told about drawing as a kid and figuring out how to show the thickness of the ice with the hole ... a useful technical detail for a kid from Minnesota who likes to draw funny pictures.

#Snoopy #Comics #Cartoons #ComicsHistory #MuseumWork #Curation #Exhibitions

Note to self. #museumwork

Be sure to keep your receipts! This one from Roman Egypt on the back of a broken piece of pottery, in ancient Greek script, dated 166 CE for Aprius Gemellus' half load of chaff to heat the baths. In the collections at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

#MuseumWork #Archaeology #Receipts #KeepYourReceipts #YouNeverKnow

Be sure to keep your receipts! This one from Roman Egypt on the back of a broken piece of pottery, in ancient Greek script, dated 166 CE for Aprius Gemellus' half load of chaff to heat the baths. In the collections at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

#MuseumWork #Archaeology #Receipts #KeepYourReceipts #YouNeverKnow

The world is in chaos, arrgh! Just trying to keep track of all the Alexanders ... as in silver tetradrachms of Alexander the Great, this one minted in Amphipolis, #Greece

#MuseumWork #coins #numismatics 😅 #artifacts #Hercules #CollectionCare

The world is in chaos, arrgh! Just trying to keep track of all the Alexanders ... as in silver tetradrachms of Alexander the Great, this one minted in Amphipolis, #Greece

#MuseumWork #coins #numismatics 😅 #artifacts #Hercules #CollectionCare

Day in the life of a collections care specialis: ancient Greek & Roman coin pop-up exhibit in the main hall, tracking down 1970's publication pics of a Ptolemaic clay sealing from Edfu, Egypt, photographing late Bronze Age Greek pottery
#MuseumWork #CameraRoll #archaeology #artifacts #ceramics #coins

Day in the life of a collections care specialist: ancient Greek & Roman coin pop-up exhibit in the main hall, tracking down 1970's publication pics of a Ptolemaic clay sealing from Edfu, Egypt, photographing late Bronze Age Greek pottery
#MuseumWork #CameraRoll #archaeology #artifacts #ceramics #coins