Ashlee Perrenoud Note: This is one in a series of spotlights on MOI staff members who have been named a “Keefer Fellow,” a monthly program aimed at recognizing staffers for their contributions to the museum and the community. Q: Explain what you do at the museum in 20 words or less. Ashlee: As Director of […]

Note: This is the first in a series of spotlights on MOI staff members who have been named a “Keefer Fellow,” a new monthly program aimed at recognizing staffers for their contributions to the museum and the community.

What’s in the box by Deborah Chessey, MOI Director of Marketing The space phone arrived in my office in a standard shipping box. The return address was from NASA, and it was addressed to me. I knew exactly what it was: a satellite phone being sent to the museum ahead of Dr. James Green, NASA’s […]

Our cursed artifacts by Deborah Chessey, MOI Director of Marketing The story of how the Museum of Idaho came to possess allegedly cursed Egyptian artifacts needs to be prefaced with a bit of history. In November 1922, two men broke through the wall of an unknown tomb in the Egyptian desert. One man peered in. […]

The first time I saw the monkey, it was in a contraband picture from someone not related to the museum.