Articles in Natural History
Arizona Sonora Desert Museum Announces Festival of Flight: Wings over the Desert
The Arizona Sonora Desert Museum presents Festival of Flight: Wings over the Desert on October 14, 15 & 16, 2011. This year the Desert Museum will be launching a new festival that celebrates animals with wings: birds, bats and butterflies! The weekend will kick off with the opening of the much anticipated Raptor Free Flight Program & the Celebration of “Year of the Bat”. Spend the day enjoying raptor programs, live bat encounters and lectures, tequila tasting, ... Read More
Dennos Museum Center Hosts 2011 Art and the Animal Exhibition
The Dennos Museum Center will be the host site for the 2011 Art and the Animal origination exhibition which is the flagship exhibition of The Society of Animal Artists, an organization dedicated to maintaining the highest standards among painters and sculptors who specialize in animal subject matter. Exhibition on view SEPTEMBER 18 – DECEMBER 31, 2011. The SAA draws upon the artistic talent of over 500 members from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America. Combining ... Read More
Bell Museum of Natural History Increases Admission Charge
The University of Minnesota Bell Museum of Natural History is increasing its admission fees effective September 1, 2011. The small increase will fund additional student museum guide positions at the museum. The price of admission will increase from $5 to $6 for adults, and from $3 to $4 for children from 3 to 17 and for seniors 62 and older. Children under three, museum members, and University of Minnesota employees and current students will continue to receive free admission. The price ... Read More
Natural History Museum of Utah Announces Science Movie Night
The Natural History Museum of Utah plans to add a whole new level of expertise to its popular Science Movie Night program by partnering with the Utah Film Center. The program will continue to be a free event on the second Wednesday of every month at the Salt Lake City Main Library auditorium, running from 6:30 – 9 p.m. The new Science Movie Night partnership will debut with the screening of Seed Hunter on Sept. 14. The ensuing discussion will feature Rita Dodge, the conservation ... Read More
Georgia Museum of Natural History Reopens
The Georgia Museum of Natural History re-opened on on September 15. The opening reception included a special art exhibition entitled “Lost Species, Visions of Landscapes Past” featuring the landscape paintings of Philip Juras and a reading by nature writer, Dorinda Dallmeyer, director of the University of Georgia Environmental Ethics Certificate Program. The Gallery will feature the natural landscape of pre-settlement southeastern United States. Some unique museum specimens ... Read More
Carnegie Museum of Natural History Adopt-a-Bird-Band Program Receives Grant
Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s Adopt-A-Bird-Band program has received a $20,000 matching gift from a major regional foundation that makes grants in areas including education and the environment. Laurel Foundation, which since 1951 has supported programs that foster individual responsibility and long-term benefits for participants and the community, issued its matching grant to the museum’s Adopt-A-Bird-Band program. The Adopt-A-Bird-Band program launched quietly in May 2011 when ... Read More
World Museum in Liverpool Announces Age of the Dinosaur Exhibition
Amazing life-sized moving dinosaurs will terrify Liverpool when a blockbuster exhibition roars into the city this autumn. In a major coup for World Museum, Age of the Dinosaur opens on 22 October and runs until 15 April 2012. Age of the Dinosaur will make its first appearance outside London after being created by the Natural History Museum where it had a successful run. The exhibition will give all the family an experience not to be missed. Six life-size dinosaurs will emerge out of the ... Read More
Akron Art Museum Announces Art Blooms! Kaleidoscope 2011 by Akron Garden Club
Akron Art Museum paintings, sculptures and Paula Nadelstern’s kaleidoscope quilts are comingto life in the form of flowers. Akron Garden Club is returning to the museum with Art Blooms! Kaleidoscope 2011, a Garden Club of America (GCA) flower show, with exhibits in floral design, horticulture, photography and botanical jewelry. On View September 22-25, 2011. GCA flower shows are known for their exceptional floral designs and avant-garde use of flowers. Entries are expected from GCA members ... Read More
National Museum of Natural History Exhibition “More Than Meets the Eye” Introduces Visitors to Specimens Up Close
The National Museum of Natural History’s exhibition, “More Than Meets the Eye,” highlights how scientists at the museum rely on special tools and skills to examine the world’s diversity of life and culture up close and in great detail. With more than 80 images, the exhibition explores how ideas about imaging and its uses have evolved over the past century into a powerful form of visual evidence used to enhance research. “More than Meets the Eye” will be on display through Nov. 4, ... Read More
Gallery of California Natural Sciences Reopening June 2012
The transformed Gallery of California Natural Sciences themed Hotspot California: Bringing Dioramas to Life Through Community Voices will feature innovative displays about California places that exemplify the state’s great biological and geological diversity as well as its complex environmental challenges, such as climate change, urbanization, pollution, and invasive species, among others. The Gallery will infuse dramatic dioramas with emerging technologies and compelling stories of real ... Read More
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