Exploring History through Plants and Glass: A Conversation with Michaela Schmull

Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Michaela Schmull, Director of Collections for the Harvard University Herbaria, about her work with a collection of about five and a half million dried and pressed botanical specimens and their associated artifacts, including the one-of-a-kind Glass Flowers models. 

Correction: The Tuckerman Herbarium was purchased in 1886, not 1829, as stated in the podcast.