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• Ancient Geographers and "Known Unknowns"

  February 23, 2011

  

• Mystery Object

  March 21, 2017

  

• Way Back Wednesday

  October 7, 2015

  

• Ortelius Atlas

  • Art
  • Collections
  • Exploration

  February 18, 2022

  The illustrations in this atlas include many interesting and colorful subjects like mermaids, shipwrecks, sea monsters, and polar bears!

  

• A salty situation

  • Conservation
  • Cultural Heritage

  July 28, 2020

  When salt gets into things it’s not meant to get into, it almost always causes problems, but the nature of the problem varies by material: organics (like wood, leather and cloth), metals (like iron and copper), and other inorganic materials (like ceramics, glass and stone).

  

• Dahlgren Gun Tools: an In-Depth Look at Treatment, Part II

  • Conservation
  • Science
  • Technology
  • USS Monitor

  August 16, 2021

  In this blog post we’ll continue the discussion about one of USS Monitor’s gun cleaning tools, and the conservation treatment it has undergone.

  

• Be My Mariner? Share a Secret with Your Mariner Valentine

  • Conservation
  • Science
  • Technology

  February 8, 2021

  See how we made secret Valentine's using invisible ink!

  

• Agents of Decay: they’re everywhere!

  • Conservation

  August 5, 2020

  The agents range from everyday environmental issues to unlikely, but devastating, events. It’s important to remember, and you’ll see it as we go through the list, that often these agents work together.