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[todaysdocument]

Today's Document turned 6 today!

Six years and over 5,000 posts later, we still enjoy bringing you daily historic, important, and otherwise curious records from the @usnatarchives. Thanks to all our fans, followers, and fellow history nerds!

Missed a post? Check out our archive!

And in the spirit of Museum Memories Day, what was your favorite Today’s Document?

[stratfordhall-blog]

Today social media is celebrating museum memories. For #tbt and #MusMem we are sharing a presidential memory: "I always think of myself as a rediscoverer of Stratford. Probably there were many others who, like myself, stumbled upon the Stratford of twenty years ago. I knew of its existence, of course, but not its precise location. When, therefore, a party of us who were serving in the Wilson administration landed from the small presidential yacht Sylph at an apparently unihabited section of the lower Potomac and Stratford appeared before us as we strolled inland, we felt the thrill of Balboa upon the peak of Darien." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

[ashmoleanmuseum]

Look familiar? This is the Ashmolean's main entrance in 1958!

It's Museum140's Museum Memories Day today and we'd love to read about your most memorable museum moments and memories. Share them with the #MusMem hashtag.

[denvermuseumns]

A Museum Memory from Research Manager at Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Tiffany Nuessle.

"My barista at Starbucks found out that I worked at the Museum and she told me that she got her name because of her parents visit. The same day that her parents found out they were pregnant with her, they had come to the Museum, been to Space Odyssey and been able to look through a telescope and learn about Halley’s comet as it was going by at the time. They had enjoyed their time so much and it had been so special to them that when they found out they were pregnant, they decided to name her after the comet."

(Please note, image is the Cotopaxi meteorite from Fremont County, Colorado.)

[denvermuseumns]

Aerial view of Denver Museum of Nature & Science from 1988, with Downtown Denver and the Rocky Mountains in the background.

[yalepeabodymuseum]

It's Museum Memories Day! ‪Share your best ‪‎Peabody Museum memories with us on Facebook: (https://www.facebook.com/YalePeabodyMuseum), Twitter (https://twitter.com/yalepeabody), Google+ (http://plus.google.com/+peabodymuseum) and Instagram (https://instagram.com/yalepeabodymuseum/)

[amnhnyc]

Today is Museum Memories Day! Above are some of our favorite memories from the Museum’s nearly 150-year history. Browse our Digital Special Collections for over 10,000 images from the Museum archives. 

Tweet your Museum Memories @AMNH with #MusMem, where we’re retweeting our favorites.

[denvermuseumns]

For Museum Memories Day #MusMem, a wonderful story of ‘The Broken Ivory Bracelet and the Discovery of the Red Seed’. From Education Collections Assistant Manager, Colleen Carter.

“One of my favorite stories from the Education Collections begins with a broken ivory bracelet.  

As I was reorganizing the drawer that contained our elephant tusk fragment and ivory carvings, I came across an ivory bracelet. The bracelet is carved from one piece of ivory, and consists of a circle of elephants marching trunk to tail. 

I noticed that the bracelet had broken and was sitting askew within its box. Looking at it, I was sure if I opened the box I could reposition the bracelet in a more appealing position. Once I was at a work table, I opened the box and buried within the batting found a small red seed. I quickly found an ivory carved stopper for the seed as well. 

As I was working, I began to notice tiny white flakes on my work table. When I inspected one of the “flakes” more closely I noticed it was an extremely thin and tiny white elephant. I began collecting the tiny elephants, and counted 9 in total. I did some research and discovered the seed was from a Red sandalwood tree. In India, they are called lucky manjadikuru seeds and are found in large golden pots in the temple of Guruvayoor. Running your hands through the seeds is said to cure illness and disease. Sometimes there are carved ivory animals inside a hollow seed that represents wishes.  I read that often there are 12 carved animals (usually elephants, but not always) in the seeds.  But I only had 9!  I carefully double checked the white batting for more white elephants, and found 2! Now I had 11. I couldn’t believe that I was so close. I then got on my hands and knees under my work table looking everywhere I thought the tiny elephant could have fallen. 

Then, under a cable, I spied a white fleck. It was the last elephant! All 12 were accounted for! I quickly housed the 12 tiny elephants in a vial and boxed the vial, the seed and carved stopper. It was all so small; I didn’t want to lose anything.  

I love to tell the story of the seed and tiny elephants, but the story of how they were all rehoused is almost just as good!”