Gallery Talk: Out of the Vault: Treasures Old & New

Join Museum curator Alan Petersen for a talk about MNA’s fall exhibit, Out of the Vault: Treasures Old and New. The exhibit presents a variety of works of art, Native American craft work, and natural history specimens that are new to the Museum’s collections. Collecting art, ethnographic objects, and scientific specimens from dragon flies to dinosaur skeletons is an essential aspect of the Museum of Northern Arizona’s mission. New objects may arrive as gifts and bequests, and on occasion the Museum may purchase them outright. Out of the Vault gives visitors an overview of some of the most outstanding new objects to join our collections and illustrates the relationship of many of them to preexisting collections and their significance. MNA honors the generous commitments of our donors and researchers by safeguarding and preserving these collections for the public today and for future generations.