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Nineteenth-Century Automata and Our Visual Culture Today

In the summer of 2018, I was the collections intern for the Murtogh D. Guinness Collection of Mechanical Musical Instruments and Automata at the Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey.

Marina Takagi '21

Art + Storytelling at the Colby College Museum of Art

Stories help us to make meaning of our lives and the world around us. They relate our experiences to a broad cultural and emotional landscape. In teaching us to ask

Caroline Webb '19

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Eastman Johnson's The Party in the Maple Sugar Camp

“The Party in the Maple Sugar Camp is fascinating because it represents a work that never was, a project Johnson had great ambitions for that never came to fruition.”

Katie Ryan ’18
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