This week, we present Paul Hadzima's the story of the lost Judd Hall Museum. You can watch the slideshow with archival images supplied by Wesleyan’s Special Collections & Archives on Wesconnect.
At Reunion & Commencement 2014, Paul Hadzima ’59 told his to Wesleyan Storytelling Project producers Mia Lobel ’97 and Tess Altman ’17.
So, is it really lost?
We have records that indicate that some of the artifacts of Judd Hall Museum went to the Middletown schools, the Smithsonian, Yale, and other places; some items considered poor-quality was discarded; and the remainder went into storage at Wesleyan. Of the items that were stored at Wesleyan, some went to the Peoples museum and others, including the monumental megatherium fossil, cannot be presently accounted for and are lost. It is uncertain how you would track down the materials that went to other places today, so in that sense, maybe you could say that they are “lost,” too.
