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This word is defined by UNESCO as "our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future generations" (it's also part of this museum's name).
What is "heritage"?
In addition to serving UConn, the William Benton Museum of Art boasts this designation.
What is CT State Art Museum?
This word, meaning "the variety of all living things on Earth," is also part of the Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology's research collections' name.
What is "biodiversity"?
Where the BRC's living plants are housed.
What is greenhouses?
This campus collection houses primary sources such as manuscripts, rare books, university records, photographs, correspondence, maps, and scrapbooks.
What is Archives and Special Collections?
This soda company's commemorative bottles are proudly displayed at the Museum.
What is Coca Cola?
Today's Beanery Cafe gets its name from the Benton Museum building's original function.
What is a dining hall?
An example of this type of marine mammal is stored in a drawer at BRC.
What is a Polar bear?
This phenomenon is studied across BRC's collections as plants and animals respond to long-term temperature and weather shifts driven by human activities.
What is climate change?
Archivists create this type of document to describe an archival collection.
What is a finding aid?
The Museum is named for this former captain of the football team and generous supporter of UConn athletics.
Who is Robert J. Donnelly?
This year the Benton is celebrating what milestone anniversary.
What is 60th?
In addition to time, what other piece of basic information is needed at the time of their collection for BRC specimens to have scientific value?
What is location?
Living plants are grouped in the conservatory by climate, including tropical/rainforest, desert/arid, and this zone, which includes most of the contiguous U.S.
What is temperate?
This measurement tells archivists the "full extent" of a collection, as indicated in the finding aid.
What is linear feet?
In 2023, this article of clothing was donated by the family of John E. Winzler, who was killed in action in WWII.
What is a varsity letter sweater?
This decade saw the construction of the Benton's original building and the start of a campus art collection by UConn President Charles Lewis Beach.
What is the 1920s?
This preservation method produces research-grade bird and mammal specimens (it's also the name of a related UConn club).
What is skinning?
This carnivorous plant species is native to CT.
What is a pitcher plant?
Groups of records in an archival collection are divided into subsets called what.
What are "series"?
In 1981 UConn hosted and won the first NCAA championship game in this women's sport.
What is field hockey?
Artist Ray DiCapua has a special relationship with the subject of the portrait, Marie, indicated by her jewelry.
What is husband?
This type of composite organism highlighted on our tour is not a plant but the product of a symbiotic relationship between a fungus and a photosynthetic partner.
What is lichen?
This type of succulent was named for our tour guide Matt Opel, who discovered it in South Africa's Western Cape Province.
What is stone crop or living stone?
ASC is housed in UConn's Center for Human Rights, named for a pair of father and son U.S. Senators from CT.
Who are Thomas and Christopher Dodd?