Jenks Museum

The Jenks Society for Lost Museums is dedicated to the curious story of the Jenks Museum of Natural History and Anthropology.

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The coins of the Jenks Museum https://t.co/4JQQavbNjS

[Íris Sampaio @irisgorgona]

"Whatever induces the young or old to turn their attention to the study of nature, is a gain to society at large, as substituting truth for fiction" by J.W.P. Jenks in Inside the Lost Museum by @lubar

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My mice! https://t.co/0eVJKrZrg8

[Smithsonian Magazine @SmithsonianMag]

A scholar follows a trail of dead mice and discovers a lesson in why museum collections matter. https://t.co/EGQ0UeNPcC

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The Jenks Museum lives on in a new book: Inside the Lost Museum: Curating Past and Present. https://t.co/IFJeolclJK https://t.co/CHdPLM4e2t

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New book inspired by the Lost Museum project! https://t.co/yEofcy0dX6

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Happy 197th birthday to John Whipple Potter Jenks!

[Amelia T. Grabowski @AmeliaTGrabow]

"Taxidermy? Let's go!" —My sister. @JenksMuseum inspired family field trip, anyone?

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2015 History in Progress Award from @AASLH for The Jenks Society for Lost Museums.

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Your chance to ask John Whipple Potter Jenks: why did the @smithsonian ask him to send 500 mice and shrews in 1855? #AskACurator

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I collected these mice in 1855! Used in research for at least 70 years! #AskACurator
(@Harvard MCZ now)

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Professor John Whipple Potter Jenks is back for #AskACurator Day! Exciting new information on mice!

[Harvard Art Museums @harvartmuseums]

Ready to welcome #Harvard students to the relaunched Student Print Rental Program!

[The Walters Art Museum @walters_museum]

Memento Mori: A Night of Rogue Taxidermy http://t.co/KYWTAfPN0i

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@bshaykin @publichumans at the Public Humanities Center, 357 Benefit St.

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The Jenks Museum, reimagined once again, @publichumans.

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Says @AmeliaTGrabow about #FilthyLucre "It was like the @JenksMuseum but with anger issues."

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Pleased to announce that "A Brief Guide to the Lost Museum" won honorable mention in exhibit catalog category @nemanet. Congrats @bshaykin

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The Lost Museum returns to dust - or does it? http://t.co/bcNxu290Ag @whimbot reflections #lostmuseums

[Brown University @BrownUniversity]

Two more awards for The Lost Museum https://t.co/6WbWp0KMgr @JenksMuseum

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Mark Dion on his @the_barnes installation: on collectors, violence, and symmetry. https://t.co/2Z2bJTfXu0