Hayden Planetarium. Astronomia (Gallery)

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Exist Dates

1964 - 1997

Biographical or Historical Note

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Permanent exhibition. Opened June 29, 1964 and closed January 5, 1997. Located on Floor 2, Section 18. The Hayden Planetarium's Astronomia exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History, also known as the IBM Wing, focused on the history of astronomy and exhibited early astronomical and navigation instruments. The gallery initially featured loans of objects and manuscripts from the Adler Planetarium, Harvard College, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Library of Congress (1, 1963/64 p. 4, 25-26; 1, 1997) and by the 1990s, the gallery is described as "a variety of astronomical lore with pictures and writings from medieval times to the present." Exhibits also demonstrated how astronomers measure the distance of stars and how a planet's distance from the sun affects its orbit around the sun. Although the exhibit Your Weight on Other Worlds moved around the Planetarium, Astronomia at one point featured these scales (3, 1990; 4, 1984, p. 63).

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Sources

    (1) American Museum of Natural History. Annual Reports. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1963/64-1934.
    (2) Neil de Grasse Tyson to the Museum Community "Closing of the Planetarium", January 2, 1997.
    (3) American Museum of Natural History. The Universe (Brochure).. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1990.
    (4) American Museum of Natural History. Official Guide to the American Museum of Natural History. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1984.
    Information for the hall appears in the following Museum publications:
    The American Museum of Natural History: A Pictorial Guide: 1967.
    The American Museum of Natural History: An Introduction: 1972.
    American Museum of Natural History Official Guide 1984 (page 63)
    American Museum of Natural History Annual Report 1963/64 p. 4, 25-26
    American Museum of Natural History. Update: The Universe (brochure) 1994.
    American Museum of Natural History. Frontiers: New Discoveries in Space (brochure) 1990.

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AMNH: Floor 2, Section 18. [Additional location information: IBM Wing.]

Related Corporate, Personal, and Family Names

Hayden Planetarium
Astronima (Gallery) was a part of the exhibition space in the Hayden Planetarium.

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Historic Halls of the American Museum of Natural History
Curated digital images of permanent halls in the American Museum of Natural History Library, Digital Special Collections.

Written by: Clare O'Dowd
Last modified: 2018 December 7


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