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Out with the old, in with the new
There are some new objects to see in the lab! Just this week, we began returning some of our recently-treated objects to storage and exchanging them for some new stuff, including a painted wooden...
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A different sort of unwrapping…
by Alexis North, a project conservator spending the summer working with the Buddhist Murals Project, but who also has a strong interest in Egyptian materials. Read more about her work on Egyptian...
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Conservation at the Penn Museum: the next generation
Our department temporarily gained a member last week, when aspiring conservator Jessica Schwartz returned to spend an afternoon with us. Conservator Tessa de Alarcon shows Jessica an RTI (reflectance...
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A closer look at one of our feathered friends
We have an ibis mummy in the lab, which is revealing itself to us in an unusual way. Unlike most animal mummies in our collection, we can actually see the ibis’ remains – in this case, its feathers! It...
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Animal mummy x-rays
The Artifact Lab has been a busy place lately (thanks in part to a big collections move project), and just last week we got a special delivery of some animal mummies from storage which have not been...
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What’s inside those animal mummies?
Last week we x-rayed 8 animal mummies from our collection. These mummies were previously in storage and are in the Artifact Lab for much needed treatment and storage upgrades. As you can see in the...
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Animal mummies: contents revealed part II
This is a follow-up to my last blogpost, where I posted some side-by-side images of animal mummies and their x-rays. In this post I’m going to explain what we think we’re seeing in the radiographs....
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