If you read Lisa’s post on the animal mummy field trip to the Animal Medical Center and got as excited as we did, follow us…
Read MoreThese past few weeks we have been steadily packing and preparing to transport a group of animal mummies to the Animal Medical Center (AMC) for…
Read MoreYesterday, a team of curators, conservators, and art packers and handlers took the last of our human mummies to North Shore University Hospital to be…
Read MoreIf you were following us on Twitter last June, you probably remember us live tweeting as a group of mummies were taken to North Shore…
Read MoreThose of you who are 1stfans got an introduction to the animal mummy research project being done at the Museum when we held an informal…
Read MoreIt should not be so hard to tell a woman from a man. Yet three of the five male mummies from the Brooklyn Museum that…
Read MoreAs some of you may have seen from the recent press coverage, we took four of our Egyptian human mummies to North Shore University Hospital…
Read MoreWe’ve got something very cool going on! Follow us on Twitter today to get our updates—we are going to be tweeting live as curators and…
Read MoreThothirdes may be familiar to those of you who have seen her on display in the 3rd floor Egyptian Galleries. She was deinstalled and brought…
Read MoreIn addition to continuing to x-ray the animal mummies, the Conservation Lab has started preparing to send several human mummies to North Shore University Hospital….
Read MoreThis past Saturday as part of programming for 1stfans at the Brooklyn Museum, I gave a presentation on the animal mummy research the Conservation Department…
Read MoreLike people, books have histories. Bookplates, inscriptions and marginal notes all tell us something about where the book has been and who owned it. The…
Read MoreTo recap previous blogs, the mummy of Demetrios is wrapped in linen, then the entire surface of the linen is painted with red lead. On…
Read MoreThe mummy of Demetrios raises a large number of questions that can only be answered with the help of a team of scholars. Each of…
Read MoreI’m back from leave, and during the last several months we’ve been busily getting all of the objects ready for the “To Live Forever, Egyptian…
Read MoreA team from the Indianapolis Museum of Art including curator Theodore Celenko, designer Tim Hilldebrand, director of new media Daniel Incandela, and new media project…
Read MorePhoto by Adam Husted Sorry for the delay in this post, but it was a long process organizing the CT scans. When we unpacked Demetrios,…
Read MoreWhile Marc was visiting us from the Getty to carry out XRF on our mummy Demetrios, we decided to give Marc a sample of the…
Read MoreOn July 5, Marc Walton, a scientist with the Getty Conservation Institute came to examine one of our mummies, knows as Demetrios. He brought a…
Read MoreI would like to introduce you to Demetrios. Demetrios is a mummy in the Brooklyn Museum collection that will be traveling across the country…
Read More“While mummies have been subjected to CT scans for more than two decades, it was a first for the museum and for North Shore. The…
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