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.

David Gerrick - Information Services
Dayton Lab

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