Understanding What Remains: Specimens as Heritage

This online workshop led by Elaina Foley (Yale '23) offers an opportunity to engage with the ways that meaning and materiality are produced within museum contexts. By examining proposals for alternate natural history institutions, exploring the material processes of conservation, and developing critical approaches towards specimens, participants will consider what kinds of heritage natural history collections might hold for them. How can we articulate, feel, and act on our responses to this heritage, and might these responses spill over into everyday life?

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