What's Ownership History Got to Do With It? Provenance Across the Smithsonian

Past Programs

Welcome

Michelle Delaney

and

Cheryl Braunstein

co-chairs Material Culture Forum

Moderator

Richard Kurin,

Acting Provost and Undersecretary for Museums & Research,

Office of the Secretary

Speakers

Edward J. Bronikowski,

Senior Curator,

National Zoological Park

Ensuring a Future: Ownership; Provenance; Research; and Wildlife Conservation

Megan Burdi,

Archivist,

Archives of American Art

Crowdsourcing for Provenance: the Jacques Seligmann & Co. Records in the Smithsonian Transcription Center

Matthew Carrano,

Curator of Dinosauria,

National Museum of Natural History

Provenance Provides Context and Repeatability in Paleontology

Laura Coyle,

Head of Cataloging and Digitization,

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Poking and Provenance Paradigms

Eric Holinger,

Repatriation Office Tribal Liaison,

National Museum of Natural History

and

Chris Dudar,

Repatriation Office Osteology Laboratory Manager,

National Museum of Natural History

Recovering Provenance Through the Repatriation Documentation and Investigative Process

Jennifer Levasseur,

Museum Curator,

National Air and Space Museum

When Seconds Count: Astronaut Personal Timekeeping Devices

Jeffrey Smith,

Assistant Registrar for Collections Information,

Freer and Sackler Galleries

Making Connections: WWII-Era Provenance Research and Data at the Freer-Sackler

Steven Turner,

former Curator of Physical Sciences,

National Museum of American History

The Provenance of Scientific Instruments: Using Ownership to Study the Owner