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Tuesday, September 16, 2003
Fortune's Bones
September 16, 2003 A small museum in Waterbury, Conn., is struggling with a big question: what to do with a set of human remains in its collection. In the next installment of All Things Considered's "Hidden Treasures" series, Harriet Baskas reports on a real skeleton in the closet, named Fortune.
Thursday, August 28, 2003
Inside Museum Backrooms
August 28, 2003 From shrunken heads to items literally too hot to handle, many museums collect items of note, but choose not to display them. Harriet Baskas takes a look around the back rooms of some of the nation's most prominent museums to see what they're not showing the public.
