The National Museum of the American Indian hosts the third annual Living Earth Festival on Friday, July 20, through Sunday, July 22. This year’s festival features an organic farmers market, an outdoor cooking competition, music [Read More]
Natural History
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Sam Noble Museum of Natural History presents Chinasaurs. an exhibition on view through September 16. Chinasaurs features a variety of rare and extraordinary creatures. Complementing the dinosaurs are fossil dinosaur eggs and nests, along with [Read More]
Carnegie Museum of Art presents Natural History, an exhibition on view July 28, 2012–October 14, 2012. Florian Maier-Aichen, German, b. 1973; Untitled, 2005, chromogenic print; Joseph Soffer Family Trust Fund Natural History brings together a [Read More]
An odd harmony of animal sounds fills the natural history museum’s North American Hall, where, normally, the moose reigns majestically and the grizzly bear ogles its fresh kill—in dead silence. The Academy of Natural Sciences, [Read More]
The Bruce Museum in Greenwich has opened it’s Seaside Center, located at the Town of Greenwich’s Innis Arden Cottage on Greenwich Point, the Seaside Center is an environmental and cultural facility at which programs that [Read More]
The Dickinson Fossil Heritage Center opened at the Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park on June 16. Dickinson Fossil Heritage Center The new 1,520-square-foot center features educational exhibits and activity areas, including a fossil dig [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s Institution’s Archives of American Gardens, which is managed by Smithsonian Gardens, recently received the American Public Gardens Association Award for Program Excellence. This annual award recognizes exemplary public garden programming that has been [Read More]
Smithsonian Regent Roger Sant and his wife Vicki have made a gift of $10 million to endow the director’s position at the National Museum of Natural History and support the museum’s research and public engagement [Read More]
The Morris Museum of Art presents Nikon Small World, an exhibition on view through August 5, 2012. Nikon Small World recognizes excellence in photomicrography – photography through the microscope – honoring images that successfully showcase [Read More]
Based on new, groundbreaking research from scientists around the world, the exhibition, Ultimate Dinosaurs. Giants from Gondwana, at the Royal Ontario Museum, reveals strange-looking dinosaurs unfamiliar to North Americans that evolved in isolation in South [Read More]
The New York State Museum presents an exhibition showcasing the works of Adirondack photographer and conservationist Seneca Ray Stoddard. On view from June 29 through February 24, 2013. The exhibition includes over 100 of Stoddard’s [Read More]
The El Paso Museum of History presents Healing Hands & Healing Ways. Traditional Medicine in the Borderlands on view through June 30, 2012. Healing Hands & Healing Ways tells the story of a way of [Read More]
The National Geographic’s Greatest Photographs of the American West exhibition is to open simultaneously in 10 U.S. museums on October 27, 2012. Mike Nichols Northern Spotted Owl, California, 2009 From the surprising photograph of an [Read More]
The Museum of Natural and Cultural History at the University of Oregon presents Out in Space, Back in Time: Images from the Hubble Telescope, an exhibition on view through February 2013. Hubble Telescope Orion Nebula [Read More]
The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History is to host a Wine Festival on June 20, 2012 at 2:00–5:00 PM. Escape for an afternoon and enjoy the refreshing ambiance of being in nature as you [Read More]
The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History presents Butterflies Alive, on view through september 16, 2012. Experience the magic of Butterflies Alive! as you walk through a beautiful garden filled with flowers, luscious greenery, and [Read More]
The National Museum of Natural History celebrates World Oceans Day on June 8, with a wide variety of themed activities for the entire family. The museum is partnering with Coastal America to offer opportunities like [Read More]
Spencer Museum of Art presents 39 Trails. Research in the Peruvian Amazon, an exhibition on view through July 22, 2012. This exhibition, which is co-sponsored by KU’s Biodiversity Institute, will be the platform for sharing [Read More]