ms. gochberg, she also received her ph.d. from boston university. so without further ado, please join me in welcoming ms. gochberg.. >> well, great, thank you so much, gavin, for that er introduction and thank you so much to all of you for being here tonight.ee i'm so grateful to the massachusetts historical society for hosting me and i am really n looking forward to my us conversation with sara. t i also especially want to thankc gavin and olivia for organizing this event. a it's a pleasure to be here and have a chance to share my work i on the history of museums with this community and i'm gratefulg to all of you for taking the time to listen in and join in on this conversation. so i'm just going to share my screen to get us started. i want to start out with a strange and perhaps surprising story from the early history ofd american museums. some of you might be familiar with the work of charles wilsone peal, who was an entrepreneur ir philadelphia in the late 18th century.hi peel established one of the a earliest american museums in tha 1780s and