I remember, being in third grade, going to the Carnegie Museum of Natural
History and seeing the Egyptian exhibit.  The favorite part of the museum
was the mummy in this particular exhibit -- if you sat on the floor and
hunched over real low, you could see the mummy's fingers.

In college, two of the artifacts in the Anthropology Department were a
mummy's hand and foot.  One day in class when we were studying Egypt, the
professor brought out these mummified artifacts.  And he passed them around
the room letting each student gently handle the objects through their
protective bag while he told about King Tut's tomb and the "curse."  We were
all very fascinated with these objects and his story.  Just as the artifacts
were being returned to him, he told us how the people in Carter's team who
died after opening Tut's tomb, probably died of a strain of pneumonia that
had laid dormant for 3000 years until it had new, moist, warm, fresh lung
tissue when the team opened the tomb.  Then he made sure to tell us that he
didn't know where these particular mummy parts had come from and he
recommended that we not put our hands near our faces.  Well, needless to
say, all twenty some of us kept our hands as far away from our bodies as
possible for the remainder of class and we went directly to the rest rooms
after class.  No one died from some strange illness either.



>Subject: Most Unforgetable Exhibit
>
>
> > I would like to pose a question to the group. What is your most unusual
> > acquisition? What is the one thing the kids go home and talk about at
> > supper? The exhibit that people thirty years later remember? Examples
> > from my experience include "The Amputated Leg of General Sickles" at the
> > old Army Medical Museum, or the "supposed" 19th Century witch in a lead
> > sealed bottle mentioned last autumn on this list. The bizarre, the
> > outre, the acquisition with a folk legend attached (Hope Diamond). Tell
> > the list! The item need not be on exhibit. Things from the basement like
> > Yale's collection of pickled brains. Same goes for works of art! Any
> > good stories accompanying them. Likewise strange curatorial experiences.
> >
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