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Lerner Marine Laboratory: Window to the Sea (Exhibition)
birth: 1974 May 16
death: 1974 August
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.