April 14, 2018
Sharlot Hall (shown here about 1943) inspecting part of her collection on exhibit in the Governor’s Mansion. The rest of her collection was exhibited or stored in two vaults in the Sharlot M. Hall Building. (Sharlot Hall Museum/Courtesy, call number 1928-001-i069)
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The concept of a museum originated more than two millennia ago with Ennigaldi, a Babylonian princess. She lived in Ur, in today’s Iraq, about 530 BCE (Before Common Era).
By Dr. Sandra Lynch, Special to the Courier
April 15, 2018
