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Profiles of the Past: Geology of Three Southwest Canyons (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1980 October 31 - 1981 May 1
Abstract
Exhibition. Opened October 31, 1980 and closed May 1, 1980. Located in Section 1A, Floor 1 in Gallery 77 at the American Museum of Natural History. Profiles of the Past: Geology of Three Southwest Canyons explored the geologic history of Bryce, Zion, and Grand Canyons, and was curated by Sidney Horenstein, scientific assistant in the Museum's Department of Invertebrates.

Roots of Puerto Rico (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1973 June 6 - 1973 December
Abstract
Exhibition. Opened June 6, 1973 and closed December 1973. Located on Floor 1 in Education Gallery at the American Museum of Natural History. Roots of Puerto Rico, funded by the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, traced the origins of Puerto Rican culture. It was curated by Program Coordinator Maria Uyehara and Assistant Coordinator Lucille Rios of the Caribbean Studies Program of the Museum's Department of Education and designed by the Department of Exhibition.

Satellite: First Step to Space (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1958 March 21 - 1958, approximately
Abstract
Exhibition. Opened March 21, 1958 and closed approximately 1958. Located on the first floor of the Roosevelt Memorial Building at the American Museum of Natural History. Satellite: First Step to Space was a pictorial exhibition designed to answer frequently asked questions about man-made satellites.

Star Trek Exhibition: A Retrospective of the 60s (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1993 July 1 - 1994 March 6
Abstract
Exhibition. Opened July 1, 1993 and closed approximately March 6, 1994. Located in the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History. Star Trek & Exhibition: A Retrospective of the 60s was a retrospective exhibition on the Star Trek television show, curated by the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian Institution.

The Camera at the Museum (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1955 January 5 - 1955 February 8
Abstract
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.

The Career of Charles R. Knight (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1961 January 15 - 1961 April 9
Abstract
Exhibition. Opened January 15, 1961 and closed April 9, 1961. Located in Section 5, Floor 2 in the Corner Gallery at the American Museum of Natural History. The Career of Charles R. Knight exhibited the artist's work throughout his career in various forms and was curated by Edwin H. Colbert.

The Life and Times of Carl Akeley: The Man Behind the Hall (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1973 April 24 - 1973 September 3
Abstract
Exhibition. Opened April 24, 1973 and closed September 3, 1973. Located on Floor 2 in the African Corridor at the American Museum of Natural History. The Life and Times of Carl Akeley: The Man Behind the Hall explored Akeley's methods for creating the dioramas in the Museum's Akeley Hall of African Mammals and included slides, photographs, a film, and some of Akeley's original material.

The Making of a Dinosaur (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1978 February 6 - 1979
Abstract
Exhibition. Opened February 6, 1978 and closed approximately 1979. Located in Section 9, Floor 4 in the Hall of Late Dinosaurs at the American Museum of Natural History. The Making of a Dinosaur allowed visitors to view a scientific project in process, the molding and casting of the Museum's triceratops skeleton in the Hall of Late Dinosaurs.

The Making of a Python (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1974 March 1 - 1974 March 31
Abstract
Exhibition. Opened March 1, 1974 and closed March 31, 1974. Located on Floor 2, Section 12 on the second floor in the rotunda of the New York State Roosevelt Memorial at the American Museum of Natural History. The Making of a Python, an "Exhibit of the Month", explained the process of casting a plaster mold from a live Burmese python for the Museum's Hall of Reptiles and Amphibians, which was being updated at the time and reopened in 1977. The mold was made in collaboration with the New York Zoological Society (Bronx Zoo) (1).

The Mexican Cotton-Boll Weevil (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1904 - 1904
Abstract
Exhibition. Open in 1904. Located on Floor 1, on the ground floor near the entrance in the American Museum of Natural History. The Mexican Cotton-Boll Weevil featured cotton-boll weevil and cotton boll specimens and addressed the contemporary crisis about the damage caused by the insect to cotton crops in the Cotton Belt of the Southern United States.

The Once and Future Korea (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1988 April 7 - 1988 September 25
Abstract
Exhibition. Opened April 7, 1988 and closed September 25, 1988. Located on Floor in 2 in the Akeley Gallery at the American Museum of Natural History. The Once and Future Korea, an Arthur Ross Exhibit of the Month curated by Laurel Kendall of the Museum's Department of Anthropology, featured 80 sepia-toned photographs and artifacts from Korea at the turn of the twentieth century bracketed by color photographs and high-tech objects from Korea from the 1980s.

The Prehistoric Mammals of Charles R. Knight (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1992 July - 1992 July
Abstract
Exhibition. Open in July 1992. Located on Floor 2 in the Akeley Gallery at the American Museum of Natural History. The Prehistoric Mammals of Charles R. Knight included more than 30 paintings and sculptures of early mammals by artist Charles R. Knight (1874-1953).

The Story of Diamonds (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1981 February 11 - 1981 March 22
Abstract
Exhibition. Opened February 11, 1981 and closed March 22, 1981. Located on Floor 1 in the Education Gallery at the American Museum of Natural History. The Story of Diamonds covered the origin, mining, and cutting of diamonds.

The World Beneath Our Feet...Minerals (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1967 October 1 - 1968 December 31
Abstract
Exhibition. Opened October 1, 1967 and closed December 31, 1968. Located in Section 5, Floor 2 in the Corner Gallery at the American Museum of Natural History. The World Beneath Our Feet...Minerals featured 250 minerals from the Museum's collection arranged to demonstrate evolutionary sequence and was curated by D.M. Vincent Manson, Assistant Curator of the Department of Mineralogy.

Theodore Roosevelt: A Natural Naturalist (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1983 November, approximately - 1984 January 4
Abstract
Exhibition. Opened November 1983, approximately, and closed January 4, 1983. Located in Section 12, Floor 2 in the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda. Theodore Roosevelt: A Natural Naturalist marked Theodore Roosevelt's 125th birthday and featured memorabilia and photographs.

This Exhibit in Preparation (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1975 October 10 - 1976 July
Abstract
Exhibition. Opened October 10, 1975 and closed July 1976. Located in Section 1A, Floor 1 in Gallery 77 at the American Museum of Natural History. This Exhibit in Preparation explained how the Museum's Department of Exhibition and Graphics created and mounted exhibits in the Museum.

Through the Looking Glass: History of Microscopes (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1981 September 23 - 1981 December 30
Abstract
Exhibition. Opened September 23, 1981 and December 30, 1981. Located on Floor 2 in the Akeley Gallery at the American Museum of Natural History. Through the Looking Glass: History of Microscopes explored the evolution of microscopes and their impact and was organized by the Museum and the New York Microscopical Society.

Tibetan Butter Sculpture (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1989 January 24 - 1989 March 30
Abstract
Exhibition. Opened January 24, 1989 and closed March 30, 1989. Located in Section 19, Floor 2 in the Whitney Memorial Hall of Oceanic Birds at the American Museum of Natural History. Tibetan Butter Sculpture featured ten monks from the Gyuto Tantric Monastery in India demonstrating the sculpting of a Tibetan butter sculpture.

Tiffany: 150 Years of Gems and Jewelry (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1988 March 30 - 1988 June 5
Abstract
Exhibition. Opened March 30, 1988 and closed June 5, 1988. Located in Section 4, Floor 1 in Gallery 1 at the American Museum of Natural History. Tiffany: 150 Years of Gems and Jewelry, curated by Janet Zapata, Peter Schneirla, and George Harlow and organized by the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, demonstrated the evolution of Tiffany's jewelry design in the United States, and Tiffany's role as designer, manufacturer, and purveyor of jewelry. The exhibit focused on the shared history of Tiffany and the American Museum of Natural History through the work of gemologist George F. Kunz.

Titian Ramsay Peale: 1799-1885 (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1984 November - 1985 July
Abstract
Exhibition. Opened November 1984 and closed July 1985. Located on Floor 4 in the Library Gallery. Titian Ramsay Peale: 1799-1885, held in commemoration of the centennial of Peale's death, featured Peale's original drawings, journals, oil paintings, sketches, unpublished manuscripts, and photographs.
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