你们中的许多人可能意识到博物馆占据了世界着名的诺福克纹身纹身师8月伯纳德科尔曼，称为Cap Coleman。我们的科尔曼材料是我们最受欢迎和定期要求的私人观景和贷款的汇集之一。现在，“纹身人”的雕像目前正在马萨诸塞州沙萨诸塞州塞勒姆的Peabody Essex博物馆展出。
几个星期前，Peabody埃索克斯的朋友用Nonie Gadsden连接了我，Katharine Lane Weems美国装饰艺术和雕塑的高级策展人，波士顿博物馆。Nonie was in the process of coordinating the acquisition of an object for their collection [Since the MFA hasn’t formally announced it yet I won’t spoil their surprise by telling you what it is!] and had some questions about our Coleman collection and how we acquired it. Answering those questions revealed a rather surprising motivation behind the Museum’s decision to acquire the materials.
