The Hoarding Instinct

The Hoarding Instinct

On the third episode of the Curiosity Cabinet we are joined by Wyck’s very own board chair Sandra Mackenzie Lloyd as well as renowned author and psychologist Randy Frost. In this episode we explore the hoarding instincts of the Wistar-Haines family that led to the creation of one of the most authentic collections in the United States.

The Rose Garden

Join horticulturists Jenny Rose Carey and Martha Keen to explore the history of the oldest rose garden in the United States, still growing in its original plan at Wyck.

The Holotype Specimen

Former caretaker of Wyck Matt Halley shares how he came to discover the long lost holotype specimen of the Baculites ovatus, a more than 60 million year old squid fossil that was placed in the curiosity cabinet of Wyck 200 years ago.