“Where Did All These Birds Come Together?” Part 2

Visitors to the museum often ask where our collection of birds came from. With 560 on view in our ornithological gallery and another 2000 or so in storage, the answer isn’t simple especially considering that records of our earliest collections are spotty by today’s standards. Today we continue a series

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Arts Education During COVID

In these unprecedented times, it is clear that education has faced many challenges. Parents and caretakers are working double-duty to keep up with their children’s assignments from home. The school system is trying hard to keep up with the needs of its students. Educators are working twice as hard (or

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Protest Art of the Civil Rights Movement

Delores Francine makes deliberate choices in her 1950s Little Rock piece which reflect the changing goals and perspectives of Black art, moving away from the art of the Harlem Renaissance, towards that of the Civil Rights Movement. In order to fully understand the impact and significance of those choices, we

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An Internship in Unprecedented Times

My summer ended before it began. Like so many others, my plans were uprooted by the first wave of COVID-19 that hit the United States earlier this year. Way back in April (what feels like ages ago now), I received an email telling me that the archaeology field school I

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Beyond Exhibits: Conservation in the Real World

Much like everything else this year, my fall internship at the Everhart Museum was shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic. In an entirely virtual setting, I was tasked with creating entries for different museum collections in the museum’s collections software, PastPerfect. The fully remote experience allowed me to work for the

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Tripping the Folk Fantastic

Want to try something fun?  Define “Folk Art.”   Not as easy as it sounds – but it sure is an interesting game! This is the dance we have joined as new Partners in the “Folk & Traditional Arts” program of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. While the Everhart is

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From the Lackawanna to the Susquehanna: Traces of the Lenni-Lenape

The indigenous people that inhabited the land that many of us in Northeastern Pennsylvania call home were the Lenni-Lenape. The Lenape inhabited the region which stretches from southern New York all the way through Eastern Pennsylvania as well as New Jersey down to Delaware. The Lenape are divided into three

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“Where Did All These Birds Come From?”

Visitors to the museum often ask where our collection of birds came from. With 560 on view in our ornithological gallery and another 2000 or so in storage, the answer isn’t simple especially considering that records of our earliest collections are spotty by today’s standards. Today we’ll begin a series

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Mapping the Twining Herbarium

My name is Sebastien Hardinger and I am a Master’s student in the Public History program at Northeastern University. As part of my internship with the Everhart this summer, I worked with Museum staff to begin mapping specimens from the Everhart’s Herbarium.  The Everhart’s Herbarium, a collection of plants, was

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Fritz Scholder’s Spirit of Independence

As we exit these final weeks of summer, our country laments the conclusion of the months of Independence. Americans raise their glasses once more to the overthrow of foreign tyranny, the season’s last fireworks exploding in the heavens. Bald eagles soar over amber waves of grain. The Star-Spangled Banner yet

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