The People of The Mint
Exhibitions: Current & Past
Making Museum Spaces
History, Lore and Esoterica
Upcoming Exhibitions
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If I need to dig up some information from the past, who should I talk to?

Ellen Show, Director of Library & Archives

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For which exhibition did Imaginary Friend Ted roam the building?

Never Abandon Imagination: The Fantastical Art of Tony DiTerlizzi, 2019

100

This space has featured plenty of booty-shaking moments from Mint2Move to Kiki

Robert Haywood Morrison Atrium

100

What gallery namesake drove into work at the Mint daily well into their 90s?

Mellanay Delhom

100

This exhibition features the work Oxymodern a 10 foot by 10 foot glass calendar.

Collidoscope: de la Torre Retro-Perspective

200

I have a group interested in booking an event at MMR, who do I connect with?

Alison Rogers, Special Events Manager

200

Name this piece and exhibition: The piece features a common gardening tool and slip-cast ceramics

Patrick Owens’ Thoughts and Prayers in Coined in the South  

200

This space hosts hundreds of artworks from young artists from schools all over the region, as well as our own Staff Art Show!

The STAR Gallery

200

What former curator went on to become a successful young adult novelist

Amber Smith

200

Which exhibition will make you want to run and jump? Or break out your kicks?

Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks

300

This person runs the museum store’s social media account and e-commerce site

Valeria Vazquez,  Museum Store Social Media Strategist and E-Commerce Coordinator

300

This 2016 exhibition featured pioneers like Elaine de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, and Grace Hartigan

Women of Abstract Expressionism

300

This gallery features the work King’s Voyage by Bertil Vallien

The Craft + Design Gallery

300

Former curator, Charles Mo, had a measure of success as a fashion designer. Who did he design for?

Barbie

300

Where could you find a painting of a boy with a lizard?

Caravaggio: Revolution

400

This new member of The Mint Museum is our Community Relations and Civic Engagement Director

Ramona Holloway

400

Mint Museum Randolph added 15,000 sq feet, and thirty new staffers just to accommodate this exhibition

Ramesses The Great: The Pharaoh and His Times

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The Atrium at Mint Museum Randolph has this piece flying overhead

The Illustrious Kites Made in Boxing Styles by Sam Gilliam

400

Today three National Gallery Pieces hang at MMU, how many did NGA loan for our 1936 inaugural exhibition?

15! Which was unprecedented at the time!

400

Which exhibition displays over 150 objects on loan from a local collector?

Art of Devotion: The Santos de Palo Tradition of Puerto Rico

500

This person is the longest-tenured team member of The Mint Museum

Leslie Strauss, 26 years!!!!!!!

500

Which exhibition featured a costume from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella?

Classic Black: The Basalt Sculpture of Wedgwood and His Contemporaries

500

How many dollars was the rubble of the former US Mint Branch purchased for?

$950, $23,507 in today’s dollars

500

What year did the Mint ban smoking in the museum?

1967

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Where might you find Bruce Springsteen and John Waters?

ANNIE LEIBOVITZ / WORK