Author: Jules Long

Harvard’s Glass Flowers

Harvard’s Glass Flowers

This week’s post is brought to you by Jules Long, a second year Master’s student in the Museum Studies and History program at Tufts. Just two miles from Tufts University is Harvard’s Museum of Natural History, which hosts the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models 

Repatriating a Coffee Table: The Return of Caligula’s Ship to Italy

Repatriating a Coffee Table: The Return of Caligula’s Ship to Italy

This post comes from Jules Long, a student in the Tufts History and Museum Studies program. On October 19, 2017, an ancient Roman ship’s floor mosaic—which had been turned into a coffee table—was repatriated to Italy in a ceremony held by Italian and American officials.