Exhibition. Opened April 14, 1989 and closed June 18, 1989. Located in Section 1A, Floor in Gallery 77 at the American Museum of Natural History. Gary Larson: The Far Side of Science featured more than 400 of Larson's Far Side cartoons presenting his views on science and the natural world.
Exhibition. Opened February 16, 1972 and closed September 1972. Located on Floor 2 in the Akeley Gallery at the American Museum of Natural History. Great Gull Island—A Natural Laboratory depicted the research conducted on the Museum's field station at Great Gull Island located on the eastern end of Long Island Sound and highlighted the abnormalities noted in the island's tern population at the time; it was curated by Helen Hays of the Museum's Ornithology Department.
Exhibition. Opened June 21, 1956 and closed September 4, 1956. Located in Section 5, Floor 2 in the Corner Gallery at the American Museum of Natural History. Gyotaku: The Impression of a Fish at the American Museum of Natural History was an exhibition of Japanese fish prints and was curated by Francesca LaMonte, curator of fishes at the Museum.
Exhibition. Opened December 1, 1923 and closed December 14, 1923. Location unknown within the American Museum of Natural History. The Harrison Williams Galapagos Expedition exhibition featured paintings and other material related to the Williams Galapagos Expedition (1923), which was conducted at the New York Zoological Society's tropical research station.
Exhibition. Opened March 5, 1954 and closed approximately June 1954. Located in Section 2, Floor 1 in the Grand Gallery at the American Museum of Natural History. How Exhibits Are Made explained the complex process of creating exhibitions for the American Museum of Natural History.
Exhibition. Opened November 12, 1919 and closed November 27, 1919. Located in exhibition halls that are unnamed in Museum documentation. Industrial Art, Textile, and Costume at the American Museum of Natural History was curated by H.J. Spinden and M.D.C. Crawford and demonstrated connections between modern textile design and designs of indigenous cultures from around the world.
Exhibition. Opened November 30, 1908 and closed January 17, 1909. Located on Floors 1-3 in the Columbus Avenue Wing at the American Museum of Natural History. The International Tuberculosis Exhibition, illustrating the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis in individual U.S. states as well as in other countries around the world, was first on view in Washington D.C. in connection with the International Tuberculosis Congress, and it was brought to New York at the request of the Committee on the Prevention of Tuberculosis of the Charity Organization of New York.
Exhibition. Opened April 18, 1985 and closed July 21, 1985. Located in the Naturemax Gallery of the American Museum of Natural History. John James Audubon: Science into Art, curated by Mary LeCroy, Senior Scientific Assistant in the Museum's Department of Ornithology, featured paintings, prints, documents, and memorabilia from the Museum's collection as well as two new hand-colored Birds of America prints struck from original, restored copperplates.
Exhibition. Opened February 1, 1981 and closed approximately May-June 1981. Located on Floor 4 in the Library Gallery at the American Museum of Natural History. Joseph Wolf: Natural History Artist showcased a compendium of works by natural history illustrator Joseph Wolf and was curated by Nina Root, Museum Chief Librarian.
Exhibition. Opened April 1, 1974 and closed May 31, 1974. Located on Floor 3 at the American Museum of Natural History. Jumbo featured the skeleton of the eponymous elephant and coincided with the traditional circus season.
Exhibition. Opened October 31, 1986 and closed October 26, 1987. Located on Floor 4 in the Library Gallery at the American Museum of Natural History. Ladies in the Field: The Museum's Unsung Explorers featured photographs, diaries, published monographs, and mementos of women who traveled on and contributed to expedition work, including Delia Akeley, Mary Jobe Akeley, Dina Brodsky, Grace Murphy, Sally Clark, and Osa Johnson.
Exhibition. Opened May 16, 1974 and closed August 1974. Located on Floor 2 in the Akeley Gallery at the American Museum of Natural History. Lerner Marine Laboratory: Window to the Sea recreated the Museum's research station on the island of Bimini in the Bahamas.
Exhibition. Held during the month of February each year from 1953 to 1968. Located in Section 2, Floor 1 in the Grand Gallery for the years 1953, 1963, 1964, 1965 Section 12, and Floor 2 in the Rotunda of the New York State Roosevelt Memorial in 1956 and 1968. The Life Mask of Abraham Lincoln at the American Museum of Natural History featured a bronze cast of a mold created by sculptor Clark Mills on or about February 12, 1865.
Exhibition. Opened June 13, 1955 and closed July 10, 1955. Located in Section 5, Floor 3 in the Insect Hall at the American Museum of Natural History. Life in a Honey Bee Colony showed an American-raised colony of bees in a glass observation hive.
Exhibition. Opened in January 15, 1934 and closed in 1955. Located in Section 10, Floor 1 in the Hall of Ocean Life at the American Museum of Natural History. The Lindbergh Plane featured Tingmissartoq, the Wright-powered Lockheed Sirius seaplane flown by Charles and Anne Lindbergh as well as equipment, items, and maps used on their journeys.
Exhibition. Opened October 19, 1954 and closed approximately November 1954. Located in Section 5, Floor 3 in the Insect Hall at the American Museum of Natural History. Live Tarantulas, Black Widow Spiders, Scorpions and Whip Scorpions featured live specimens, most collected by Mont A. Cazier and Willis J. Gertsch in Arizona and northwest Mexico, as well as field photographs.
Exhibition. Opened September 19, 2014, and closed January 4, 2015. Located on Floor 4, in the Astor Turret at the American Museum of
Natural History. A taxidermy mount of Lonesome George, the world-famous tortoise from Pinta Island in the Galapagos, was on display at the Museum.
Exhibition. Opened May 10, 1960 and closed January 31, 1961. Located in Section 5, Floor 2 in the Corner Gallery at the American Museum of Natural History. Lute, Flute and Drum: Musical Instruments Around the World featured more than 200 instruments from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the South Pacific and was curated by Colin M. Turnball, Assistant Curator of African Ethnology at the Museum with musicologist Theodore Grame.
Exhibition. Opened September 30, 1988 and closed January 1, 1989. Located in Section 3, Floor 3 in Gallery 3 at the American Museum of Natural History. Magnificent Voyagers: The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842, organized by the Smithsonian Institution and curated at the American Museum of Natural History by Stanley A. Freed of the Department of Anthropology, presented the scientific and maritime accomplishments of the U.S. Exploring Expedition.
Exhibition. Opened on October 4, 1937 and closed on October 18, 1937. Located in the Education Hall at the American Museum of Natural History. The Metropolitan Model, part of the City Planning Exhibition, was a miniature cartographic jigsaw puzzle model of New York City constructed by the Cartographic Study of the WPA of New York City as a practical visual aid to city planning.