The Aurora Gem Collection and the Goldberg Collection (Exhibition)

Exist Dates

1988 March 9 - 1989 April

Biographical or Historical Note

abstract

Exhibition. Opened March 9, 1988 and closed April 1989. Located in the Morgan Memorial Hall of Gems at the American Museum of Natural History. "The Aurora Gem Collection and the Goldberg Collection" featured colored diamonds containing some of the rarest natural "fancy" colored diamonds in the world and included 153 diamonds from the two collections.

Summary

"The Aurora Gem Collection and the Goldberg Collection" featured colored diamonds containing some of the rarest natural "fancy" colored diamonds in the world and included 153 diamonds from the two collections. The Aurora Gem Collection contained 128 natural colored diamonds, and the collection from the William Goldberg Diamond Corporation consisted of 25 diamonds. The curator for the exhibition was George E. Harlow, the Curator in the American Museum's Department of Mineral Sciences. The collections were on view in the Morgan Memorial Hall of Gems of the American Museum of Natural History starting March 9, 1988 and continuing through April, 1989.

Individuals and institutions involved in the creation of the exhibition: George E. Harlow; AMNH Department of Mineral Sciences.

Sources

American Museum of Natural History Press Release, March 4, 1988. Departmental Records, 101; American Museum of Natural History Library Archives.

American Museum of Natural History Press Release, December 6, 1989. Departmental Records, 101: American Museum of Natural History Library Archives.

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Related Corporate, Personal, and Family Names

American Museum of Natural History. Morgan Memorial Hall of Gems.
Location of exhibition.

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