miss reed gochberg received a ph. d. from boston university. without further ado, please join me in welcoming miss reed gochberg. >> thank you so, much, gavin for that introduction. thank you so much to all of you for being here tonight. i'm so grateful to the massachusetts historical society for hosting me. and i'm really looking forward to my conversation with sarah giorgione i also want to thank david and olivia for organizing this event. it's a pleasure to be here and have the chance to share my work on the history of museums with this community. i'm grateful to all of you for taking the time to i listen in and join in this conversation. i'm just gonna share my screen to get us started. i want to start out with a strange and perhaps surprising story from the early history of american museums. some of you might be familiar with the work of charles wilson peele who was a portrait painter, naturalist and museum entrepreneur in philadelphia in the late 18th century. peel established one of the earliest american museums during the 1780's. he com