Museum People's Tattoos

Many museum folks have a love for tattoos—their cultural significance, their artistic quality, their documentation of the natural world, and some, just for their own personal meaning. For years, we have talked about tattoos, the ones we want, the design, the stories behind them, and the artists who create them. So, lets post our tats and our stories!

Monday, April 27, 2020

Tattoo Replicas of Audubon's Birds

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Stephanie Brown is a Chicago-based tattoo artist and painter who specializes in tattoos of John James Audubon’s famous bird prints. He...
Friday, September 21, 2018

Ginkgo Twins

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Christina Ferwerda shares this story of how her post on the MPT blog inspired another museum person's tattoo! In 2014 I shared...
Sunday, July 22, 2018

Neuroscience Tattoo

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This past January, I went to see an exhibition in NY at the Gray Art Gallery curated by a friend named Natasha Boas. The exhibition was a...
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Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Transitions and Flowers

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I got this tattoo to mark several important transitions and periods in my life. I started a graduate degree program in Ecology (it was a...
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Monday, January 15, 2018

Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia)

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I've been many places across the US, but there is only one place that really speaks to me—Joshua Tree National Park. I first experie...
Monday, October 16, 2017

Maple Syrup

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I worked in a natural history museum in the Midwest for over 20 years and was lucky enough to have a great biologist on staff who would...
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Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Vegas Strong

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After the mass shooting in Las Vegas on Oct. 1, 2017, several tattoo shops around town started doing Nevada and Las Vegas tattoos and don...
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