Amulets at the Pitt Rivers

An amulet is "anything worn about the person as a charm or preventative against evil, mischief, disease, witchcraft, etc" (Oxford English Dictionary). For more of the 5000 amulets the Pitt Rivers Museum has archived go to the website Small Blessings.

Hornaday with Baby Bison at Smithsonian

"William Temple Hornaday, Chief Taxidermist of the United States National Museum from 1882, Curator of the Department of Living Animals, and the first Superintendent of the National Zoological Park, with a baby bison known as Sandy, probably on the grounds adjoining the Smithsonian Castle. This is probably the bison calf that Hornaday brought back from his 1886 summer field trip to Montana. The calf lived only a short time."

From The Smithsonian Archives

"Effectively it's a museum about everything, everywhere, ever": The New Cambridge University Museum of Anthropology and Archeology

Sylvia Plath, front-doors, humanity, Totem poles, objects made 1.8 million years ago, Captain Cook, death, sex in Ancient Rome, snakes and ladders and other things in the Cambridge University Anthropology and Archeology Museum's collections.

Extinction: The Last of Vietnam's Rhinoceros Sondaicus Annamiticus Was Officially Killed