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A visit with Alex Barker, Director, Museum of Art and Archeology
Additional Interview Clips
A Survey of Alex Barker’s Work
Barker’s Fieldwork in Romania
Barker’s Fieldwork in the New World
The Museum of Art and Archaeology
Museum Ethics
Museum Ethics (cont.)
More than the Object’s Label
Collaborative Research
Beyond the Moundbuilder Myth
The Bronze Age
Inside the Museum of Art and Archaeology
Romanian Surrealist Artist, Victor Brauner
How Barker Came to this Field
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“I could never decide what I wanted to do,” recounts Barker. “I was interested in everything. People have described archaeology as being a discipline that takes from all the other disciplines. He began his career in archaeology at a very young age—during middle school, in fact—doing field camps through a Northwestern University program in southern Illinois, where he helped to excavate a series of very large sites. After doing a few seasons there, Barker was hooked.