Lerner Marine Laboratory: Window to the Sea (Exhibition)

Exist Dates

1974 May 16 - 1974 August

Biographical or Historical Note

abstract

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.

Lerner Marine Laboratory: Window to the Sea recreated the environment and activities of the Museums research station on the island of Bimini in the Bahamas (1). C. Lavett Smith of the Department of Ichthyology participated in the creation of the exhibition, which was designed by Eugene B. Bergmann of the Department of Exhibition and Graphics (2, p. 18, 32).

Highlights (1):

*Specimens of marine animals

*Specimen of a nine-foot-long nurse shark

*Color slide show

*Underwater display with life-sized model of a scuba diver

This is a condensed summary of the exhibition. For additional information, see Sources and/or Related Resources.

Sources

(1) American Museum of Natural History. Press Release. "American Museum of Natural History Recreates Its Bahamian Marine Laboratory in Special Summer Exhibition." May 22, 1974. Departmental Records, DR 101. American Museum of Natural History Library.

(2) American Museum of Natural History. Annual Report. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1973-1974.

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Related Corporate, Personal, and Family Names

American Museum of Natural History. Akeley Gallery.
Location of exhibition 1974 May 16 – 1974 August (1)

American Museum of Natural History. Department of Exhibition.
Exhibition designed by Eugene Bergmann of the Department of Exhibition (2, p. 32)

American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ichthyology.
Related department (2, p. 18)

American Museum of Natural History. Lerner Marine Laboratory.
Featured (1)

Bergmann, Eugene
Designed exhibition as part of the Department of Exhibition (2, p. 32)

Smith, C. Lavett 1927
Curator in the Department of Ichthyology, participated in creation of exhibition (2, p. 18)

Related Resources

American Museum of Natural History. Annual Report. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1973-1974: 18, 32.

American Museum of Natural History press releases, 1933-1990s.
"Calendar of Events, May 1974." April 3, 1974.; "American Museum of Natural History Recreates Its Bahamian Marine Laboratory in Special Summer Exhibition." May 22, 1974.

American Museum of Natural History photographic drawers
Repository: AMNH Special Collections [Black and white contact sheets of exhibition on view]

American Museum of Natural History Special Collections vertical files
Repository: AMNH Special Collections [News articles]

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