Search

Cosmic Curiosities

" Weather forecast for tonight: dark.”
- George Carlin, American Comedian

That the MPM endures as one of the finest institutions of its kind in the world is due in no small part to efforts of the Museum’s first Curator of Anthropology, Samuel A. Barrett (1879-1965). Barrett, born in Conway, Alaska, was a student of University of California anthropologist Alfred Kroeber and the first person to receive a PhD in anthropology west of the Mississippi (Lurie 1983: 48).

Cosmic Curiosities

“If all fools could fly, the sun would be eclipsed forever.”
- Dutch Proverb

Cosmic Curiosities

“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”
~ Helen Keller

Space Junk Reality

Cosmic Curiosities

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”                                                               
- Gustave Flaubert, 19th-century French Novelist

TESS Triumphs