JAIC Article | Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum

JAIC Article

Jennifer Torres is the Collections Technician of the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum. Her primary duties include the rehousing and photography of the museum’s collection. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Florida, where she received her B.A. in Anthropology and Classical Studies in 2013. In 2015, she received her M.A. in Museum Studies with a concentration in Collections Management from the George Washington University.

The Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum is excited to share that an article written by the museum’s Collections Technician Jen Torres, Registrar and Collections Manager Kate Gallagher, and Associate Director Sanchita Balachandran has been accepted for publication to the Journal of the American Institute for Conservation (JAIC) and is now available online.

The article, titled “Rehousing a ‘Working Collection’: Perspectives from the Johns Hopkins University Archaeological Museum”, was written for JAIC’s special issue on collections care, and discusses the museum’s unique strategies for rehousing a teaching collection.

Read the article at the link below!

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01971360.2017.1285164

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