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Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Presents Losing Paradise: Endangered Plants Here and Around the World

On Aug. 14, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will open a new, temporary, traveling exhibition “Losing Paradise? Endangered Plants Here and Around the World.” The exhibition was developed by the American Society of Botanical Artists and features botanical art and illustrations of threatened, endangered or extinct plant species. The exhibition demonstrates how scientists and conservation biologists are working with botanical artists to illustrate and research threatened, endangered, highly endangered and extinct plants. Also featured will be cases of specimens and objects from the museum’s botany collection, including an herbarium case with live plants, eight interpretive panels and 44 framed artworks by several artists, including the museum’s own botanical illustrator, Alice Tangerini.

A companion catalog, co-authored by the exhibit’s curator and museum botanist Gary Krupnick and complete with information about featured plants, illustrations and artists, will be available for purchase in the museum shops. More information about the exhibit is available online at: http://www.mnh.si.edu/exhibits/losing_paradise/index.html.

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