Happy 100th Birthday, Cherry Blossoms!
This weekend marks the annual Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C. Alas, the blossoms have come and gone already, but …
Category Archives: Material Culture
Colonial Revival Real Estate
Living in the suburban sprawl of northern Virginia, I see a lot of loosely interpreted “colonial” architecture. My parents’ neighborhood …
Top Ten Museum Visits of 2011
Here, in semi-chronological order, are highlights from my favorite field trips of the past year. Lower East Side Tenement Museum …
Decorative arts, meet my office space
Last week my office department decided we needed a small bookshelf to hold the the ever-growing pile of binders on …
Monuments and Scraps
This Sunday I ended up spontaneously walking around the National Mall with a friend, and it was the perfect way …
A Curator-in-Training Goes Corporate
Post-graduate life has been pretty unpredictable so far, especially in the past few weeks. Through some local connections, I’ve stumbled …
Hello there
Hello, and welcome to this blog’s beginning. I’ve decided my museum and history interests deserve their own home apart from …
