diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 7bd206b..2e72980 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
 .Rproj.user
+.Rhistory
+.Rdata
+.httr-oauth
+.quarto
+*.Rproj
+
 experiments
 docs
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 36d02f2..e35fd61 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 
 * Render a pkgdown website (PR #13).
 
+* Add `to_string()` and `print()` methods to the `Record` class and (incomplete) `describe()` method to the `Artifact()` class (PR #22)
+
 ## MAJOR CHANGES
 
 * Refactored the internal class data structures for better modularity and extensibility (PR #8).
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index b834ce3..2209960 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: laminr
 Title: LaminDB interface in R
-Version: 0.1.0.9000
+Version: 0.1.0.9001
 Authors@R:
     c(person("Robrecht", "Cannoodt",
         role = c("aut", "cre"),
diff --git a/R/Artifact.R b/R/Artifact.R
index 10266cd..c602889 100644
--- a/R/Artifact.R
+++ b/R/Artifact.R
@@ -49,6 +49,55 @@ ArtifactRecord <- R6::R6Class( # nolint object_name_linter
       } else {
         cli_abort(paste0("Unsupported storage type: ", artifact_storage$type))
       }
+    },
+    describe = function(style = TRUE) {
+      provenance_fields <- c(
+        storage = "root",
+        transform = "name",
+        run = "started_at",
+        created_by = "handle",
+        test = "fail"
+      )
+
+      output_strings <- character()
+
+      provenance_strings <- purrr::map_chr(
+        names(provenance_fields),
+        function(.field) {
+          field_name <- try(self[[.field]][[provenance_fields[.field]]])
+          if (inherits(field_name, "try-error") || is.null(field_name)) {
+            return(NA_character_)
+          }
+
+          if (is.character(field_name)) {
+            field_name <- paste0("'", field_name, "'")
+          }
+
+          paste0(
+            cli::col_blue("    $", .field),
+            cli::col_br_blue(" = "),
+            cli::col_yellow(field_name)
+          )
+        }
+      ) |>
+        purrr::discard(is.na)
+
+      if (length(provenance_strings) > 0) {
+        output_strings <- c(
+          output_strings,
+          cli::style_italic(cli::col_br_magenta("  Provenance")),
+          provenance_strings
+        )
+      }
+
+      self$print(style)
+      for (.line in output_strings) {
+        if (isFALSE(style)) {
+          .line <- cli::ansi_strip(.line)
+        }
+
+        cli::cat_line(.line)
+      }
     }
   )
 )
diff --git a/R/Record.R b/R/Record.R
index 2deb0c3..cfc9b1d 100644
--- a/R/Record.R
+++ b/R/Record.R
@@ -94,6 +94,62 @@ Record <- R6::R6Class( # nolint object_name_linter
           )
         )
       }
+    },
+    print = function(style = TRUE) {
+      cli::cat_line(self$to_string(style))
+    },
+    to_string = function(style = FALSE) {
+      important_fields <- c(
+        "uid",
+        "handle",
+        "name",
+        "root",
+        "description",
+        "key"
+      )
+
+      record_fields <- private$.api$get_record(
+        module_name = private$.registry$module$name,
+        registry_name = private$.registry$name,
+        id_or_uid = private$.data[["uid"]],
+        include_foreign_keys = TRUE
+      )
+
+      # Get the important fields that are in the record
+      important_fields <- intersect(important_fields, names(record_fields))
+      # Put important fields before all other fields
+      field_names <- c(
+        important_fields, setdiff(names(record_fields), important_fields)
+      )
+
+      field_strings <- purrr::map_chr(field_names, function(.name) {
+        value <- record_fields[[.name]]
+
+        if (is.null(value)) {
+          return(NA_character_)
+        }
+
+        if (is.character(value)) {
+          value <- paste0("'", value, "'")
+        }
+
+        paste0(
+          cli::col_blue(.name), cli::col_br_blue("="), cli::col_yellow(value)
+        )
+      }) |>
+        purrr::discard(is.na)
+
+      string <- paste0(
+        cli::style_bold(cli::col_green(private$.registry$class_name)), "(",
+        paste(field_strings, collapse = ", "),
+        ")"
+      )
+
+      if (isFALSE(style)) {
+        string <- cli::ansi_strip(string)
+      }
+
+      return(string)
     }
   ),
   private = list(
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f10ba7b..4b61ce1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -48,8 +48,11 @@ Get an artifact:
 
 ``` r
 artifact <- db$Artifact$get("KBW89Mf7IGcekja2hADu")
+artifact
 ```
 
+    Artifact(uid='KBW89Mf7IGcekja2hADu', description='Myeloid compartment', key='cell-census/2024-07-01/h5ads/fe52003e-1460-4a65-a213-2bb1a508332f.h5ad', version='2024-07-01', _accessor='AnnData', id=3659, transform_id=22, size=691757462, is_latest=TRUE, created_by_id=1, _hash_type='md5-n', type='dataset', created_at='2024-07-12T12:34:10.345829+00:00', n_observations=51552, updated_at='2024-07-12T12:40:48.837026+00:00', run_id=27, suffix='.h5ad', visibility=1, _key_is_virtual=FALSE, hash='SZ5tB0T4YKfiUuUkAL09ZA', storage_id=2)
+
 Access some of its fields:
 
 ``` r
diff --git a/README.qmd b/README.qmd
index 2cba7d5..870e7de 100644
--- a/README.qmd
+++ b/README.qmd
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ Get an artifact:
 
 ```{r get_artifact}
 artifact <- db$Artifact$get("KBW89Mf7IGcekja2hADu")
+artifact
 ```
 
 Access some of its fields: