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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.

Royal Tombs of Sipán (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1994 June 24 - 1995 January
Abstract
Exhibition. Opened June 24, 1994 and closed January 1, 1995. Located in Section 3, Floor 3 in Gallery 3 at the American Museum of Natural History. Royal Tombs of Sipán featured artifacts from the excavation of three tombs in present-day Peru of the pre-Columbian Moche society nobles.

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.

Scholastic National Art Exhibition (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1936 November 15 - 1936 December 9
Abstract
Exhibition. Opened November 15, 1936 and closed December 9, 1936. Located on Floor 1 in the Maxwell Memorial Hall at the American Museum of Natural History on the first floor of the School Service Building. The Scholastic National Art Exhibition, sponsored by Scholastic and brought to New York by the New York City Schools' Art Department, was the ninth annual Scholastic High School Arts and Crafts Exhibition. It presented almost one thousand prize-winning and notable works of art submitted by high school students.

School Loan Exhibition (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1941 August 16 - 1941 August 31
Abstract
Exhibition. Opened August 16, 1941 and closed August 31, 1941. Located in the Education Hall at the American Museum of Natural History. The School Loan Exhibition, arranged by Katharine Beneker of the Museum's Department of Education, intended for teachers, parents, and others interested in education, presented an exhibition of the various objects and collections which school teachers could borrow for use in the classroom.

Scientific Illustrations (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1955 May 10 - 1955 June 5
Abstract
Exhibition. Opened May 10, 1955 and closed June 5, 1955. Located in Section 5, Floor 2 in the Corner Gallery at the American Museum of Natural History. Scientific Illustrations featured approximately fifty years of work by the Museum's scientific illustrators, most originally created for the Museum's scientific publications.

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.

Surinam Portfolio (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1962 December 1 - 1962 December 31
Abstract
Exhibition. Opened December 1, 1962 and closed December 31, 1962. Located in Section 2, Floor 1 in the Grand Gallery at the American Museum of Natural History. Surinam Portfolio exhibited naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian's Insects of Surinam, a volume of 72 color plates of the insects of Surinam and plants associated with them together with her earlier volume of European insects.

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 Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1993 June 11 - 1993 September 12
Abstract
Exhibition. Opened June 11, 1993 and closed September 12, 1993. Located in Section 3, Floor 3 in Gallery 3 at the American Museum of Natural History. The Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park opened in conjunction with the film Jurassic Park, directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the novel by Michael Crichton. It displayed full-sized models from the film with fossil specimens from the Museum’s own collection, highlighting the differences between science fiction and the research done at the Museum.

The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1999 April 10 - 1999 October 11
Abstract
Exhibition. Opened April 10, 1999 and closed October 11, 1999. Located in Section 1A, Floor 1 in Gallery 77 at the American Museum of Natural History. The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition featured more than 150 photographs by the Endurance’s ship photographer, Frank Hurley, as well as artifacts, film footage, diaries, and models, which told the story of the 1914 expedition and the survival of its members.

The Friendship of the Peoples of the U.S.S.R. (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1945 November 10 - 1945 December 6
Abstract
Exhibition. Opened November 10, 1945 and closed December 6, 1945. Located in the Education Hall at the American Museum of Natural History. The Friendship of the Peoples of the U.S.S.R., sponsored by the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Inc., featured over one hundred integrated panels and texts highlighting life in the Union Republics.

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 Nature of Diamonds (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1997 November 1 - 1998 August 30
Abstract
Exhibition. Opened November 1, 1997 and closed August 30, 1998. Located in Section 3, Floor 3 in Gallery 3 at the American Museum of Natural History. The Nature of Diamonds, curated by George E. Harlow of the Museum’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, covered the geological origins of diamonds, diamond exploration and mining, the role of diamonds in history, art, adornment, and literature as well as its uses in modern technology and research.

The Official Army Air Forces Photographic Exhibit (Exhibition)

Exist Dates
1946 December 17 - 1947 January 31
Abstract
Exhibition. Opened on December 17, 1946 and closed January 11, 1947. Located in the Education Hall at the American Museum of Natural History. The Official Army Air Forces Photographic Exhibit featured photographs from Army Air Forces photographers from World War II as well as documentary photographs from the Air Forces' history before the war.

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.
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