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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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Exist Dates: 1956 December 5 - 1957 February 24
Abstract: Exhibition. Opened December 5, 1956 and closed February 24, 1957. Located in Section 12, Floor 2 in the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda of the New York State Roosevelt Memorial at the American Museum of Natural History. To Make Know How presented an illustrated history of the work of the Museum's Department of Education and was curated by Katherine Benecker, Museum exhibition coordinator, and John Saunders, chairman of the Department of Education, which was referred to as the Department of Public Instruction.

Exist Dates: 1935
Abstract: Vernay’s trip to Upper Burma in 1935 occurred during what could be called the ‘golden age’ of scientific expeditions, aiming to represent both the indigenous cultural and animal inhabitants of far away regions.

Exist Dates: 1979 April 22 - 1979 July 31
Abstract: Exhibition. Opened April 22, 1979 and closed July 31, 1979. Located in Section 1A, Floor 1 in Gallery 77 at the American Museum of Natural History. Volcano! featured volcanic materials, including lava and ash from Vesuvius, showed films of other volcanos in action, and explained the benefits of volcanic eruptions. It was exhibited in conjunction with the traveling exhibition Pompeii AD79 and was prepared by the Museum's Department of Mineral Sciences under the direction of Martin Prinz.

Exist Dates: 1983 April 12 - 1983 May 8
Abstract: Exhibition. Opened April 12, 1983 and closed May 8, 1983. Located in Section 3, Floor 3 in the Gallery 3 Annex. Warhol's Animals: Species at Risk featured ten silkscreen prints by artist Andy Warhol of endangered and threatened animals.

Exist Dates: 1988 July 9 - 1988 August 22
Abstract: Exhibition. Opened July 9, 1988 and closed August 22, 1988. Located in the Frederick H. Leonhardt People Center at the American Museum of Natural History. The Wheel of Time Sand Mandala was created while on public view over a six-week period by the Venerable Lobsang Samten, a Buddhist monk from the Namgyal Monastery.

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