The visit focused on the Paleolithic stone tool collections, as well as the synthetic casts of hominin skulls.  These are objects that are resilient to the effects of light, as well as the temperature/humidity fluctuations, dust, and air pollutants that would compromise the safety of most other objects in the collection. Class visits were split across three days to reduce crowding. Students were allowed to handle objects, but gloves were required (this is not typical for these collections, as there is often a tactile component to the observation and analysis of archaeological objects). To further reduce shared touch surfaces, we split the artifact trays in half – one half was available for touching/handling, and the other half was available for viewing only. For the next class, these artifact groups were switched, allowing each group of objects to “quarantine” for the recommended three days before being handled again. Aside from Murray’s recurring nightmare that week that she had accidentally left all the artifacts outside overnight, this set-up worked out really well! Students gave each other plenty of space, were able to make their own observations about the objects, and Brunson and Murray were on-hand to answer questions about everything from artifact identification to what stone tool technologies through time demonstrate about the evolution of human cognition.