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American Museum of Natural History. Southwest Indian Hall

Exist Dates
approximately 1904 - pproximately 1963-1966
Abstract
Permanent exhibition. Opened approximately 1904 and closed approximately 1963-1966. Located on Floor 2, Section 4 from approximately 1904 to 1910 and Floor 1, Section 8 from 1910 to approximately 1966. The Southwest Indian Hall at the American Museum of Natural History opened as part of a new wing along with the Philippine Islands, South Sea Islands, and African Ethnology halls (1, 1910, p. 16). The hall exhibited ethnological objects of Native American cultures from the Southwest United States. The Hyde Exploring Expedition (1893-1899) contributed to gathering material for the hall (2, 1918, p. 21). Curators included Pliny Earle Goddard, Herbert J. Spinden, and Nels C. Nelson (AR 1913 p. 24). Artists for various groups included Mahonri Young, Howard MacCormick, Ushinosuke Narahara, and Louis Akin (1, 1915, p. 80; 3; 4; 1, 1912, p. 31). Major funding was provided by Museum Trustee Archer M. Huntington (1, 1913, p. 24).

American Museum of Natural History. Upper Hall.

Exist Dates
1877 -
Abstract
Historic hall.

American Museum of Natural History. Whitney Memorial Hall of Oceanic Birds.

Exist Dates
1939 - present
Abstract
Permanent exhibition. Opened 1939. Located on Floor 2, Section 19. The Whitney Memorial Hall of Oceanic Birds at the American Museum of Natural History represents bird life on islands of the Pacific Ocean, from the Arctic to the Subantarctic and from the coast of Peru to the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. It was developed as a memorial to Harry Payne Whitney and his father, William C. Whitney, by Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney after her husband's death in 1930. Following the death of Mrs. Whitney in 1942, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, Cornelius V. Whitney, with the support of his family, carried on the necessary work to complete the project (1, 1953). The hall was completed and dedicated in 1953. The hall's curator was Robert Cushman Murphy. The Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941), managed by Leonard C. Sanford and Robert Cushman Murphy and included expedition members Rollo Beck and William Coultas, contributed the majority of specimens and research for the hall. The hall was designed by Francis Lee Jaques who also painted the sky dome and the background for the dioramas. Other artists included George Adams, Raymond deLucia, Joseph Guerry, George Frederick Mason, Carlton McKinley, George Petersen, Raymond B. Potter, Reginald "Buddy" Sayre, and others listed below in Relations (7, 2006, p. 167).

Ellen V. Futter Gallery.

Exist Dates
1888 - present
Abstract
Permanent exhibition. Opened approximately 1888. Located on Floor 1, Section 2. The Ellen V. Futter Gallery, renamed in 2023 (formerly Grand Gallery) at the American Museum of Natural History, located just off the 77th Street entrance, is one of the most iconic public spaces in the Museum. The Gallery has been home to many temporary exhibits, including horticultural shows, meteorites, and specimens from various expeditions and has hosted the Great Canoe associated with the Hall of Northwest Coast Indians since 1960 (1. 1962, p. 15; 2, 1960/61, p. 25; 3). As part of a larger project concerning the Museum's historic south side, it underwent restoration in 2007 (2, 2007, p. 4).

Hayden Planetarium. Astronomia (Gallery)

Exist Dates
1964 - 1997
Abstract
Permanent exhibition. Opened June 29, 1964 and closed January 5, 1997. Located on Floor 2, Section 18. The Hayden Planetarium's Astronomia exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History, also known as the IBM Wing, focused on the history of astronomy and exhibited early astronomical and navigation instruments. The gallery initially featured loans of objects and manuscripts from the Adler Planetarium, Harvard College, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Library of Congress (1, 1963/64 p. 4, 25-26; 1, 1997) and by the 1990s, the gallery is described as "a variety of astronomical lore with pictures and writings from medieval times to the present." Exhibits also demonstrated how astronomers measure the distance of stars and how a planet's distance from the sun affects its orbit around the sun. Although the exhibit Your Weight on Other Worlds moved around the Planetarium, Astronomia at one point featured these scales (3, 1990; 4, 1984, p. 63).

Hayden Planetarium. Billy Rose Hall of the Sun

Exist Dates
1976 - 1997
Abstract
Permanent exhibition. Opened November 1976 and closed January 5, 1997. Located on Floor 2, Section 18. The Hayden Planetarium's Billy Rose Hall of the Sun contained exhibits on our solar system's sun. Located in the Planetarium's Perking Wing, the Hall of the Sun featured sections on the sun as a star, its place in the universe, and its influence on humans. Many of the displays were interactive and prompted visitors to investigate such questions as, Why is the sky blue?; What is a rainbow?; and How can the sun be a source of power? (1, 1997; 2, 1976/77, p. 4; 3, 1984, p. 63). The hall was designed by Chermayeff & Geismar Associates and funded by the Billy Rose Foundation (1, 1975/76, p. 17).

Hayden Planetarium. Guggenheim Space Theater

Exist Dates
1971 - 1997
Abstract
Permanent exhibition. Opened October 5, 1971 and closed January 5, 1997. Located on Floor 1, Section 18. The Hayden Planetarium's Guggenheim Space Theater replaced the original Hall of the Sun in a renovation funded by the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation. It included a model of the solar system and Astrovision, a 360-degree projection system which incorporated 22 screens, 42 projectors, and 3,000 slides with narration (1, 1997; 2, 1970/71, p. 20; 2, 1971/72, p. 3-4; 3, 1972, p. 39).

Hayden Planetarium. Hall of the Sun

Exist Dates
1935 - 1971
Abstract
Permanent exhibition. Opened October 3, 1935 and closed 1971. Located on Floor 1, Section 18. The Hayden Planetarium's Hall of the Sun or Copernican Room featured models of our solar system's planets, which mimicked their axes and revolutions around the sun at proper relative speeds. On the blue walls surrounding the chamber were depictions of zodiac constellations showing principal stars and mythological figures. The floor featured a replica of the Aztec Calendar Stone, a cast of which has been exhibited in the Hall of Mexico and Central America. The corridor surrounding the Hall of the Sun included photographic transparencies of astronomical subjects and a collection of meteorites (1, 1935, p. 7-8). The hall also served as visitors' introduction to the Sky Theater. It closed in June 1971 and was replaced by the Guggenheim Space Theater (1, 1970, p. 20).

Hayden Planetarium. Main Lobby

Exist Dates
1935 - 1997
Abstract
Permanent exhibition. Opened October 3, 1935 and closed January 5, 1997. Located on Floor 1, Section 18. The Main Lobby of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History was located at the main entrance at 81st Street and Central Park West. It featured The Sun God Pursues the Moon Goddess Across the Sky, a mural painted by artist Charles Knight, as well as the Woman Meteorite, on view in the 1930s. The Woman is part of the Cape York Meteorite, and is now exhibited in the Arthur Ross Hall of Meteorites (1, 1939, p. 21; 2; 3). In 1955-1957, the Viking Rocket was exhibited at the main entrance (1, 1956, p. 44).

Hayden Planetarium. Meteorites and Tektites (Gallery)

Exist Dates
approximately 1990 - 1997
Abstract
Permanent exhibition. Opened approximately 1990 and closed January 5, 1997. Located on Floor 1, Section 18. The Hayden Planetarium's Meteorites and Tektites Gallery exhibited the small fragments ejected during meteorite impacts (1, 1990, 1, 1990, 2, 1997).

Hayden Planetarium. Outer Space Black Light Gallery

Exist Dates
approximately 1953 - 1997
Abstract
Permanent exhibition. Opened approximately 1953 and closed January 5, 1997. Located on Floor 1, Section 18. The Outer Space Black Light Gallery at the Hayden Planetarium featured 4,000 square feet of 14 large astronomical murals depicting the lunar landscape, Aurora Borealis, other planets in our solar system, eclipses of the sun and moon, solar prominences, galactic nebulae, and star clusters. The gallery exhibited the Ahnighito meteorite before it was moved to the Arthur Ross Hall of Meteorites in 1981, and the Willamette Meteorite, now (as of 2017) exhibited in the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Hall of the Universe (1, 1979/80 p. 16; 2, 1984, p. 63; 3, 1953, p. 35-40; 4, 1997).

Hayden Planetarium. Perkin Wing

Exist Dates
1973 - 1997
Abstract
Permanent exhibition. Opened approximately 1973 and closed January 5, 1997. Located on Floors 1 and 2, Section 18. The Hayden Planetarium's Perkin Wing was a two-story construction which connected the Planetarium and the Whitney Building. The construction was funded by the Richard S. Perkin Foundation, the Charles Hayden Foundation, and the Billy Rose Foundation. The Perkin Library and a sales shop were located on the first floor, and the second floor featured the Billy Rose Hall of the Sun (1, 1971/72, p. 19; 1, 1976/77, p. 4; 2, 1997).

Hayden Planetarium. Sky Theater.

Exist Dates
1935 - 1997
Abstract
Permanent exhibition. Opened October 3, 1935 and closed January 5, 1997. Located on Floor 2, Section 18. The Hayden Planetarium's Sky Theater at the American Museum of Natural History was the feature attraction of the Hayden Planetarium and presented the Museum's famous space shows. The dome had a diameter of 75 feet and seated 734 visitors. From its beginnings to its final shows, the Sky Theater employed three different Zeiss projectors, which could reproduce about 9,000 stars. (1, 1935, p. 4; 2, 1972, p. 37; 3, 1967). By 1982, the projection system was fully automated and controlled by computers as opposed to a human lecturer (4, 1982). It was demolished in the late 1990s and replaced by the new Hayden Planetarium at the Museum's Rose Center for Earth and Space (5, 1997).

New York State Roosevelt Memorial.

Exist Dates
1936 - present
Abstract
Permanent exhibition. Opened 1936. Located on Floor 1, Section 12; Floor 2, Section 12. The New York State Memorial at the American Museum of Natural History consists of three parts, the Central Park West Façade, the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda, and the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall, which has permanent exhibits on Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) and his conservation efforts, including the National Parks. The idea for the Memorial was first suggested by Henry Fairfield Osborn and was dedicated by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936. The façade was designed by architect John Russell Pope and the equestrian statue of Theodore Roosevelt is by James Earle Fraser (1; 2, 1935; 3, 1936).

Rose Center for Earth and Space.

Exist Dates
2000 - present
Abstract
Permanent exhibition. Opened February 19, 2000. Located on Floors 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, Section 18. The Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History was built to replace the original Hayden Planetarium, which after sixty years of advances in astrophysics, was considered obsolete (1, 1994/96 p. 6-7). The 207,000 square-foot Rose Center consists of the Hayden Planetarium (giant sphere), which includes the Space Theater and Big Bang Theater; the Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Cosmic pathway, which leads out from the Big Bang Theater; the Scales of the Universe, which surrounds the sphere; two new permanent exhibition halls: the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Hall of the Universe and the David S. and Ruth L. Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth; the one-acre public Arthur Ross Terrace; and six stories of support facilities with classrooms for educational programs and offices for the Museum's Astrophysics Department (Rose center book p. 64). The Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space was a massive undertaking that involved many curators, donors, firms, and consultants. Curators and scientists who contributed to the creation of the Rose Center were Michael J. Novacek, the Museum's Provost of Science, Neil deGrasse Tyson, the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium, James Webster, Chair of the Division of Physical Sciences, Edmond Mathez, Curator in the Division of Physical Sciences, Michael Shara, Curator in-Charge of Astrophysics, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Assistant Curator of Astrophysics, Charles Liu and Frank Summers, astrophysicists, and James Sweitzer, Director of Special Projects (1, 2000, p. 6-9). Early major support for the Rose Center was provided by Frederick P. and Sandra P. Rose, Richard Gilder, the Charles Hayden Foundation, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman. David S. and Ruth L. Gottesman, Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn, and the Arthur Ross Foundation. The new building was designed by architects James Stewart Polshek and Todd Schleimann of Polshek Partnership. The exhibits were designed by Ralph Applebaum of Applebaum Associates. Landscape designers for the Arthur Ross Terrace were Kathryn Gustafson and Anderson and Ray (1, 1994/96 p. 6-7; 1, 1996/97 p. 6; 1, 1998/99 p. 9; 1, 2000, p. 6-9; 2, 2001, p. 75).

Rose Center for Earth and Space. David S. and Ruth L. Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth

Exist Dates
1999 - present
Abstract
Permanent exhibition. Opened June 12, 1999. Located on Floor 1, Section 19. The David S. and Ruth L. Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth at the American Museum of Natural History is a part of the Rose Center for Earth Space. It is the only hall in the Rose Center not located within the Rose Center building and instead occupies a space in the Whitney building, which was constructed in 1933. The 8,830 square-foot Hall of Planet Earth tells the story of Earth, from its early evolution to the earthquakes and storms of today and features geological specimens from around the globe (1,1998/99, p. 28; 2, 2001, p. 67). Curators from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences include Chair Edmond A. Mathez, James Webster, associate curator, and Rosamond Kinzler, research scientist, along with contributions from more than 125 scientists from around the world. The exhibits were designed by Ralph Applebaum Associates and the architects were Polshek and Partners. Support for the hall was provided by David S. and Ruth L. Gottesman, the State of New York, the City of New York, the Office of the Mayor of New York, the Speaker and Council of the City of New York, and the Office of the Manhattan Borough President. Programming and educational support was provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The Earth Event Wall has been supported by a grant from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. (1, 1998/99, p. 28).

Rose Center for Earth and Space. Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Hall of the Universe

Exist Dates
2000 - present
Abstract
Permanent exhibition. Opened February 19, 2000. Located on Floor 0, Section 18. The Rose Center for Earth and Space's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Hall of the Universe at the American Museum of Natural History presents the discoveries of modern astrophysics. Support for the hall was provided by Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman. Support for the hall's AstroBulletin, which offers regularly updated information on news in astrophysics comes from Toyota Motor North America (1; 2).

Rose Center for Earth and Space. Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Cosmic Pathway

Exist Dates
2000 - present
Abstract
Permanent exhibition. Opened February 19, 2000. The Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Cosmic Pathway is a 360-foot-long path in the Rose Center for Earth and Space that spirals from the exit of the Hayden Big Bang Theater to the base of the Hayden Sphere, laying out the 13-billion-year history of the universe. One’s stride is measured in millions of years, and the relative blink of an eye that is the human era is depicted at the end of the pathway as the thickness of a single human hair.

Rose Center for Earth and Space. Hayden Big Bang Theater

Exist Dates
2000 - present
Abstract
Permanent exhibition. Opened February 19, 2000. Located on Floor 2, Section 18. The Rose Center for Earth and Space's Hayden Big Bang Theater occupies the lower half of the Hayden Sphere. Visitors look down into a concave screen to view the Big Bang presentation, giving the audience a tour of the universe based on an accurate cosmic atlas mapped using millions of astronomical observations. It takes viewers back to the birth of the universe, through its expansion and cooling, from the emergence of a simple gas cloud to galaxies with stars and planets, and raises the questions around the topic of dark energy. Support for the presentation is provided by the Charles Hayden Foundation (1; 2; 3, 2000, p. 14).

Rose Center for Earth and Space. Hayden Planetarium.

Exist Dates
2000 - present
Abstract
Permanent exhibition. Opened February 19, 2000. Located on Floors 1 & 2, Section 18. The Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space occupies the upper half of the Hayden Sphere and is the Museum's Space Theater and is a 429-seat space theater equipped with a Mark IX Star Projector and a Digital Dome Project System for viewing presentations about the universe and earth's place within it (1). The Planetarium uses a scientifically accurate 3D map of the observable universe known as the Digital Universe Atlas, which is maintained by Museum scientists and visualization experts. The Digital Universe Atlas provides the foundation for the Museum's Space Shows in the Space Theater, which is the successor to the original Hayden Planetarium's Sky Theater (2, 2000, p. 14-15; 3).
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