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The Camera at the Museum (Exhibition)
birth: 1955 January 5
death: 1955 February 8
Exhibition. Opened January 5, 1955 and closed February 8, 1955. Located in Section 5, Floor 2 in the Corner Gallery at the American Museum of Natural History. The Camera at the Museum featured almost one hundred photographs from the Museum's Photographic Division.
Summary
The Camera at the Museum featured almost one hundred photographs from the Museum's Photographic Division chosen from more than 200,000 negatives in the Division's files.
The photographs featured a range of subjects, from specimens in exhibition halls and behind-the-scenes Museum activities, including (1, p. 1-2; 2):
*Artists and craftsmen preparing habitat groups
*Museum research laboratories
*Reconstruction of a giant moa
*Model of a masked dancer from New Guinea
*Blown-glass model of a microscopic marine organism
*Ant colony in the Animal Behavior laboratory
*Studies of baby ostriches, penguins, and hagfish
*Museum preparators cleaning an elephant skin
*Model of a common housefly
*Glasswing butterfly from South America
This is a condensed summary of the exhibition. For additional information, see Sources and/or Related Resources.