Museum Hopper

I was recently in Ann Arbor for a week attending Executive Education at Michigan Ross, which was a wonderful experience.   As part of the training, they took us to the Kelsey Museum in Ann arbor for dinner.   But of course, we had to work/spent time contemplating to earn our keep (aka our dinner).   We were let loose in the museum with the charge of finding an artifact that reflected our leadership style.   I really enjoyed our visit to the museum and re-iterate a number of my earlier comments about the museum.   The museum chair has done a really nice job at making the museum approachable, edited and relevant.   I had not realized what a large collection it is.   The curator has been part of an amazing number of digs.   The woman introducing him a number of pretty great statistics about the size and importance of the collection.      I ended up using a carving of an archer to represent my leadership.   The archer...

i went to the kelsey museum of archaeology today.  what a gem!  i was very pleasantly surprised and could not believe that i had never been there before!  it reminded me of a smaller scale british museum with perhaps a slightly lower caliber of items.  it also was purely focused on mediterranean items whereas the british museum does have asian and other areas as well.  when i was graduating undergrad, they were just starting a remodel on this museum, and it appears that the money was well spent!   i was impressed with the quality and variety of the items they had.  they had great descriptions of each item as well as nice overviews of each particular set of objects and their importance in the museum as a whole.  they had sections primarily on greece, egypt and rome.  i liked that they had a mixture of objects: bowls to funeral adornments to pieces of ancient columns.   i will definitely keep my eye on this museum to see if ...