Our 2019 #MuseumSelfie Day was a little competitive since there was an award at stake. Last year the herpetology collection won and hosted the Hashtag Award for the year. They gave it up so this year’s winners could get their name engraved on it and display it in their office.
With an opening post from Director Doug Jones, so many of our staff, volunteers, students, labs and collections teams jumped in to post selfies about their work and their daily discoveries. Across the social media networks, we had over 50 fantastic selfies from the Florida Museum.
We even had selfies coming from the field from around the world!
Of course, not all of these are true selfies because it’s dangerous to hold a priceless specimen or artifact while also taking a picture of yourself. So we gave some wiggle room over the actual ‘selfie’ definition.
The Winner Is…
This year’s department winner was our Invertebrate Paleontology Collection! You can’t see it, but they’re so committed to their team photo that they’re wearing matching shirts!
Invertebrate Paleontology Collection, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Department runners-up include:
Kawahara Lab, Museum Selfie Day 2019
iDigBio Team, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Herpetology collection with addition, Museum Selfie Day 2019
More labs, projects, and collections group photos:
Selfie by Daniels lab, Museum Selfie Day 2019
South Florida Anthropology & Ethnography Collection, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Education Department, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Ceramics Lab, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Nico Cellinese, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Kawahara Lab, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Guralnick Lab, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Individual Selfies
We also awarded individual certificates to creative selfies by staff, students and volunteers, with the awards going to:
Selfie by Cody Howard, Museum Selfie Day 2019 (check out his video on Twitter at @wile_phylote)
Selfie by John Pfeiffer, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Nicole Cannarozzi, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Verity Mathis, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Cathy Gerard, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Everyone had fun with #MuseumSelfieDay and stepped up to represent the Florida Museum this year! We have so many amazing and excited researchers, students, educators and support team members.
Here’s more Florida Museum selfies:
Selfie by David Reed, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Doug Jones, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Darcie MacMahon, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Andy Kratter, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Akito Kawahara, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Rachel Narducci, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Rob Robins, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Natalie van Hoose, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Kirsten Hecht, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Jinlan Zhao, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Anupama Priyadarshini, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Natasha Vitek, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Aditi with the Christmoose, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Lindsay Bloch, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Lucas Majure, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Geena Hill, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Halle Marchese, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Adania Flemming, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Brittany Mistretta, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Sarah Cabrera, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Keith Curry-Pochy, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Caroline Storer, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Andrei Sourakov, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Zach Randall , Museum Selfie Day 2018
Selfie by Warren Brown, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Radha Krueger, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Chelsea Collison, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Catherine Aust, Museum Selfie Day 2019
Selfie by Prabha Amarasinghe, Museum Selfie Day 2019
