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Field Museum Filipino artifacts

A photo of volunteers, including Lani Chan, holding artifacts during the two year digitization period of the Philippine collections under the auspices of Cassie Pontone of the Field Museum in Chicago.

Mikayla Delson

Field Museum Filipino artifacts

A photo of volunteers, including Lani Chan, holding artifacts during the two year digitization period of the Philippine collections under the auspices of Cassie Pontone of the Field Museum in Chicago.

Mikayla Delson

Field Museum and Filipino Chicagoans collaborate to study artifacts from the Philippines

A photo of volunteers, including Lani Chan, holding artifacts during the two year digitization period of the Philippine collections under the auspices of Cassie Pontone of the Field Museum in Chicago.

Mikayla Delson

   

The Field Museum is collaborating with the local Filipino community on a collection of Filipino artifacts called Pulong ng Bayan.

Reset talks with people leading the effort to learn more about the importance of preserving heritage and history through artifact collection.

GUESTS: Jamie Kelly, head of Anthropology Collections and an Anthropology Collections manager at the Field Museum

Lani Chan, anthropology collections volunteer at the Field Museum

Ruben Salazar, executive director of the Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago

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