Museums are sometimes described as the storehouses of the human condition. While museums can house artifacts and specimens from across time and place, it is how these items inspire others that truly gives them value. The same object or specimen invokes something different in each of us. The Buffalo Museum of Science has more than 750,000 objects and artifacts in its collection—but why these items? What can they tell us? Why should they matter? And how does safeguarding these collections further our understanding of the world around us? Three years in the making, Lost Beauty II: The Art of Museum Stories will showcase a selection of 15 items from the Museum’s vast collection. These small fragments inspired renowned artist, Alberto Rey, and through his paintings he asks us to look beyond the scale, label, or fragment and appreciate the lost beauty within.
