The talk will introduce the current Stanford University Archaeology Collections (SUAC) exhibit Our Dark Materials: Rediscovering an Egyptian Collection (ODM) and, through it, consider the potential of digital humanities to extend and enhance the impact of in-real-life museum displays. By affording personal encounters with authentic artifacts, traditional exhibits like ODM offer an experience that cannot be digitally duplicated. But exhibits like this one are simultaneously constrained by their materiality. In addition, the physical manifestation of ODM presents only a small portion of the information assembled and knowledge produced during its creation. The first part of this talk will introduce SUAC’s Egyptian exhibit and summarize curatorial discoveries. The second part will involve the audience in Design Thinking to imagine potential digital humanities projects using ODM materials. How might we do more with the accumulated “back end” of resources powering the visible “front end” of a museum exhibit?