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Prep-work for In the Artifact Lab
I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Conservators work hard to prevent things from deteriorating, but we occasionally like to destroy things (gasp!). Maybe it’s because we have devoted so much...
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Mummies on the move!
A coffin (left) and storage box with mummies (right) being transported through the Egyptian galleries. No, the mummies haven’t come to life-that only happens in the movies (think the 1932 original “The...
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Microscopy and mummy bits: updates from the Artifact Lab
In the Artifact Lab: Conserving Egyptian Mummies opened on September 30 and we have since been very busy-not only working on examining and treating objects from our Egyptian collection, but also...
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Special visitor in the Artifact Lab
If you ask me, there is always something interesting going on in the Artifact Lab, and yesterday was no exception. If you have been following the Artifact Lab blog, you will know that we have been...
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Questions from the Artifact Lab: collecting and acquisitions at the Penn Museum
In the Artifact Lab: Conserving Egyptian Mummies has been open for almost a year, and it has been an exciting year, busy with new discoveries, complex conservation treatments, and many conversations...
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Confronting Death at the Penn Museum
This is me, up-close and personal with our mummy Nespekashuti. After three years of working on ancient Egyptian mummies In the Artifact Lab, I’ve gotten used to being around death every day. And, in...
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A Conservation “Vacation”
For three weeks in April, we had an intern working with us in the Conservation Department, specifically, with me in the Artifact Lab. I hesitate to call her an intern because this “intern” is someone...
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