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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.