Partners in Discovery (Exhibition)

Exist Dates

1963 June 19 - 1964 January

Biographical or Historical Note

abstract

Exhibition. Opened June 19, 1963 and closed January 1964. Located Section 5, Floor 2 in the Corner Gallery of the American Museum of Natural History. Partners in Discovery highlighted 75 years of collaboration between the American Museum of Natural History and the National Geographic Society.

Summary

Partners in Discovery highlighted 75 years of collaboration between the American Museum of Natural History and the National Geographic Society. The exhibition highlighted explorers, scientists, naturalists, artists, and expedition leaders and members such as Robert E. Peary, Richard E. Byrd, Theodore Roosevelt, Lincoln Ellsworth, Roy Chapman Andrews, Frank Chapman, Donald B. MacMillan, T. Donald Carter, E. Thomas Gilliard, Crawford H. Greenwalt, Paul A. Zahl, Matthew Henson, and Walter Weber. Donald B. MacMillan, 90 years old at the time, T. Donald Carter, E. Thomas Gilliard, and Paul A. Zahl were present for a press preview of the exhibition (1, p. 1-5).

Highlights (1, p. 1-5):

*Robert Peary's wooden sledge, mounted huskies, and a life-sized model of a Greenland Eskimo girl

*Casts of Baluchitherium skull and dinosaur eggs from the Central Asiatic Expeditions

*Mounted specimens of rare birds, including a cock-of-the-rock and birds of paradise from E. Thomas Gilliard

*Ahnighito meteorite brought from Greenland by Robert Peary

*Blown glass model of a man-of-war from Paul Zahl

*Historic banners and flags from famous expeditions

*Painting of Hiram Bingham's discovery of the ruins of Machu Picchu

*Model of exploration base Little America, a chronometer, and compasses from Richard Byrd's polar expeditions

*Sun compass invented by Albert H. Bumstead, first chief cartographer of the National Geographic Society

*Photographs from expeditions

This is a condensed summary of the exhibition. For additional information, see Sources and/or Related Resources.

Sources

(1) American Museum of Natural History. Press Release. "75 Years of Great Adventures into Unknown Recalled in Exhibition at Natural History Museum." June 19, 1963. Departmental Records, DR 101. American Museum of Natural History Library.

For more information on this exhibition see:

Knox, Sanka. "Museum Salutes Great Explorers." New York Times. June 19, 1963.

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Related Corporate, Personal, and Family Names

American Museum of Natural History. Corner Gallery.
Location of exhibition 1963 June 19 – 1964 January (1, p. 1)

Andrews, Roy Chapman 1884-1960
Featured (1, p. 1)

Bingham, Hiram 1875-1956
Featured (1, p. 1)

Byrd, Richard Evelyn 1888-1957
Featured (1, p. 1)

Carter, T. Donald (Thomas Donald) 1893
Featured (1, p. 1)

Carter-Weeks African Expedition
Featured (1, p. 1)

Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930)
Featured (1, p. 1)

Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler) 1864-1945
Featured (1, p. 1)

Ellsworth, Lincoln 1880-1951
Featured (1, p. 1)

Gilliard, E. Thomas (Ernest Thomas) 1912-1965
Featured (1, p. 1)

Greenwalt, Crawford
Featured (1, p. 1)

Henson, Matthew Alexander 1866-1955
Featured (1, p. 1)

MacMillan, Donald Baxter 1874-1970
Featured (1, p. 1)

National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Institutional partner (1, p. 1)

Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin) 1856-1920
Featured (1, p. 1)

Roosevelt South American Expeditions (1913-1917)
Featured (1, p. 1)

Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919
Featured (1, p. 1)

Weber, Walter A. (Walter Alois) 1906-1979
Featured (1, p. 1)

Zahl, Paul A. (Paul Arthur) 1910-1985
Featured (1, p. 1)

Related Resources

American Museum of Natural History. Annual Report. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1962-1963: 4, 58.

American Museum of Natural History. Annual Report. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1963-1964: 71.

subjectOf

American Museum of Natural History press releases, 1933-1990s.
"American Museum, National Geographic Open 'Partners in Discovery' Exhibit" - National Geographic News Bulletin by National Geographic Society." June 18, 1963.

American Museum of Natural History Special Collections photographic drawers
Repository: AMNH Special Collections. [Black and white photo prints of exhibition on view]

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