Ripley’s Believe It or Not – Special Collections and Archives

Location

LIB 223

Start Date

19-5-2017 1:15 PM

End Date

19-5-2017 2:00 PM

Description

Meet the guy who has spent 40 years curating at Ripley’s Believe It or Not – and he’s worked at the company longer than its founder.

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Edward Meyer - For 38 years Edward Meyer, Vice President of Exhibits & Archives for Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, has traveled around the world collecting unusual stories and unbelievable artifacts to fill Believe It or Not! books and museums. He is a walking encyclopedia of information, some strange, some gross – but all true! He has acquired over 20,000 different museum artifacts, everything from a pin valued at $1 million dollars, to a two-trunked elephant, to Marilyn Monroe’s happy Birthday Mr. President dress, to Lee Harvey Oswald’s mortuary toe tag, to a meteorite from Mars. The list is endless. Editor of the famous Ripley’s Believe It or Not! newspaper syndicated cartoon, and books, producer of countless Ripley museum films, and a researcher for over 200 hundred Ripley television shows, Meyer has appeared on radio and television programs around the world as the Ripley historian and raconteur, the man with the world’s best job!

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Ripley’s Believe It or Not – Special Collections and Archives

LIB 223

Meet the guy who has spent 40 years curating at Ripley’s Believe It or Not – and he’s worked at the company longer than its founder.

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