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1 Publicity
2 Main Street Museum Catalog of Artifacts (Catawiki)
3 Categories including Series and Subseries and Vinculum Categories
4 General Introduction
5 Objects as Evidence of Human Culture
6 Pet Toys
7 Two Dimensional Evidence Paper; Archive Collections
8 Military History Collection
9 Art
10 Fauna; Living, or Apparently Once Living, Objects
11 Flora; Living, or Apparently Once Living, Objects
12 Entomology; Insects
13 Minerals; Inanimate, or Apparently Inanimate Objects
14 Other
15 Vinculum Categories
16 References and Archive

Publicity

Main Street Museum Catalog of Artifacts (Catawiki)

Categories including Series and Subseries and Vinculum Categories

Categories are often both overlapping (vinculum) and mutable. At the Main Street Museum they include, but are not limited to: Flora; Fauna; Exotica (geographically diverse objects); Shoes (and Tiny Shoes); Fiber, Textiles and Costumes; Tangled Things; Objects Associated with Famous People; Round Things; Objects with Orifices; Bad Art; Bad Craft; Recreated Artifacts Refused by Dartmouth Realia; Amulets and Sacred Objects; Judæica; Vermontiana; Relics from the Civil War/War Between the States; and Unidentified Mammals or “Flocked Pets.”

General Introduction

The main exhibition space and research areas of the Museum as they appeared in 2007.

A German critic, W. Bürger [writes] "Our Museums...are veritable graveyard-yards in which have been heaped up, with a tumulour-like promiscuousness, the remains which have been carried thither...all are hung pell-mell upon the walls of some noncommittal gallery—a kind of posthumous asylum, where a people, no longer capable of producing...come to admire this magnificent gallery of débris.” —G. Brown Goode, Museums of the Future, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., 1891: p. 427

The Collection of artifacts at the Main Street Museum is a unique experiment in material culture studies, consisting of objects of varied origins—man-made (or historical) and biological, botanical and mineralogical.

The Museum forges nimble links and reflects meanings from object to object, from object to viewer, and from the viewer back to the object again. Our website features “wiki” software and includes the catalog of our varied holdings in a manner that is fully accessible and modifiable electronically. Asigning nuanced values to artifacts is increasingly difficult in the environment of most major collecting institutions. The neutrality of theoretical systems utilized by any museum is currently being called into question. As a small independent repository the Main Street Museum has the flexibility—indeed the mandate—to examine the layered and ever changing meanings of objects and their relationships to their surroundings. As the uses for objects are more or less continuously in flux, we analyze these uses through traditional disciplines (art historical, scientific and qualitative methods), but also through psychological analysis as well. Our emotional relationship with objects is formed abtrusely. Therefore the meaning of objects is unlocked only through similar cryptic means.

We accession items based on the sustained interest that has been shown them and the attentiveness they demonstrate towards us.

Perahaps the only true meaning in objects lies in the questions each one them asks of us.

Items that are still largely intact are valuable additions to the Museum. Items that are in poor condition are given special attention. The kernel contained within each object is an encapsulated question. We offer no answers here.

Objects as Evidence of Human Culture

Artifacts as Evidence of Religion; Comparitive Religious Studies

Judaica
Relics
- Secular Relics
  - Pieces of Wood
- Religious Relics
  - Associated Relics
  - Sacred Utensils; Consecrated Objects designed for ceremonial Use

Manuscripts and Journals

The Heather Collection

Cats
Dogs

Two Dimensional Evidence Paper; Archive Collections

Manuscripts and Letters

Military History Collection

The War of the Rebellion/War Between the States

The Renssalaer William Foote Memorial

Uniforms and Journals

Armaments and Military Technology

Actual Miltary Technology
Substitutes or Stand-ins for Weaponry and Munitions
(For World War II items see The Leroy Short Sporting and Wild Game Memorial)

Sound (Audible) Artifacts

Art

Two Dimensional Pieces

Textiles

Three Dimensional Art, Sculpture

The Ossuary; Bones

North American Mammals

The Leroy Short Sporting and Wild Game Memorial

Specimens (or Objects relating to) Birds of the Americas

Eggs

Nests
- Pigeon Nest, or Nests (with eggs)
- Robin Nests (with eggs)
- Starling Nest, or Nests, European Starling
- Wren Nests

Ornithology
The Humingbird Collection
Song Birds
- Cardinal
- Indigo Bunting
Pigeons and Doves
Raptors
- Falconiformes, Dirunal Birds of Prey
- Strigiformes, Nocturnal Birds of Prey, Owls
Water fowl

Teeth

Baby
Adult

American Flowers Unknown types
Family Rosa
European Flowers Mixed, Unknown and General Categories
Lilium
Syringa

Entomology; Insects

Minerals; Inanimate, or Apparently Inanimate Objects

Geological Specimens; Rocks
Relics from Locations of Interest see, Man Made Minerals
Soils; Loam, Sand and Dirt

Other

The Human Head

Categories Teeth and More Teeth and especially Color as a Hysterical Reaction, Round Things and Tangled Things created by curation teams of the Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont.)

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-People—Particularly Notable Vermonters]]
 *[[Objets d'Art]]
 *[[Pictures]]