Incredible Journeys: The Life Histories of Museum Objects

April 19, 2016 – May 26, 2017

Wake Forest first-year students in museum studies curated this exhibit exploring the “object biographies” of intriguing specimens in the Lam Museum’s collections. The exhibit traces objects from their original use through the missionaries, traders, soldiers, and doctors that acquired them, the connoisseurs that collected them, and finally how anthropologists (and the Museum) might use them. The exhibit showcases the range of the Museum’s collections and the diverse trajectories objects can have.