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MacKenzie Mallon - Provenance Specialist

Nelson Atkins Museum of Art Season 2 Episode 7

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A specialist in provenance tracks down the history of ownership of each object in a museum’s collection. The Nelson-Atkins vast collection numbers more than 42 thousand, so provenance specialist MacKenzie Mallon is kept very busy tracing the lineage of each one of those objects.