Brunswick ME June 18, 2013, 7:25 pm  63°F wind speed: 0 mph N |                     Photos by Kacy Hintze, associate director of annual giving
 Molly Taft ’11 is a curatorial intern at the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum For Molly Taft ’11, social media is a way to snap open the shades and let the light shine on objects that lie mostly unseen in the darkness of museum archives. Taft, a history major and German minor, is wrapping up a one-year curatorial internship at Bowdoin’s Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum. Soon after starting her position, she took a look around the museum collections and was dismayed by the many artifacts she observed tidily stored away, out of sight. “I saw thousands of objects in the collections room,” she said, as the museum can only display a tiny portion of what it owns. “My problem was, how do I take all these cool things and present them to the Bowdoin community and wider public?” Continue reading Museum Intern Offers Arctic Objects to the World
 "William Wegman: Hello Nature" at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art through Oct. 21, 2012. Nearly back-to-back articles in The Boston Globe have shared aspects and observations of artist William Wegman and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art exhibition Hello Nature featuring his work. In the course of three days, the Globe ran a review by Sebastian Smee and another piece, a Q&A, “William Wegman: Artist, Collector of Encyclopedias,” in which the artist shares his reading preferences, his vice for smartphone games — and that he collects encyclopedias.
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