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OMSI’s Collections: Or, What’s with the Stuff in the Glass Cases?

I can’t tell you how many times I have heard the comment, “OMSI has a collection?” in the twelve years that I have been at OMSI. In fact, OMSI’s collection is not small, consisting of 30,000 natural history, ethnographic, and historical objects grouped by donor into smaller collections.

Not only are OMSI’s objects historic, bu…
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