Cristian Samper, a biologist and international leader in the field of conservation biology, announced his resignation from the National Museum of Natural History where he has served as director since 2003. Samper was Acting Secretary [Read More]
Natural History
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Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal attended the opening of Scott’s Last Expedition, the Natural History Museum’s new exhibition, last night. The exhibition is on view to the public from 20 January to 2 September [Read More]
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is now accepting applications for the 2012 Educators of Excellence Institutes. Formal and Informal educators are invited to apply for partially subsidized educational trips to Yellowstone National Park, [Read More]
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences has announced the opening of it’s new 80,000 square-foot Nature Research Center (NRC) bringing research scientists and their work into the public eye, help demystify what can be [Read More]
Kathleen Springer, Senior Curator of Geological Sciences at the San Bernardino County Museum in Redlands, traveled to Washington D.C. this week to be honored for her efforts with regional colleagues in earthquake education and outreach. [Read More]
The University of Dundee Museum Collections have been awarded a grant from the Art Fund of £100,000 to build a collection of art inspired by D’Arcy Thompson, the University’s first Professor of Biology. Curator Matthew [Read More]
The Children’s Museum in West Hartford will open a new travelling exhibit, Dinosaurs Alive-Jurassic Treehouse on Saturday, January 14. An immersive experience awaits children and parents alike as they walk through dramatic multimedia scenarios featuring [Read More]
The Museum of The Earth Announces Whales: From the Depths of the National Geographic Collection an exhibition on view January 27 – June 24. Whales: From the Depths of the National Geographic Collection presents the [Read More]
The Canadian Museum of Civilization presents Flying Monsters 3D on Friday, January 20, 2012 at 8:05 pm. Flying Monsters 3D touches upon an extraordinary chapter in the history of Earth. Just as dinosaurs began dominating [Read More]
More than 500 years ago, the now-desolate Inka city of Huánuco Pampa, located high up in the Andes Mountains in Peru, periodically bustled with tens of thousands of people. But despite its large palace, temples, [Read More]
Upon Dr. Carpenter’s arrival as The Prehistoric Museum’s new director, he had many visions for the museum ranging from minor tweaks to an uprising of the dinosaurs in the sand pit. Among those visions was [Read More]
Editions of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen On the occasion of his exhibition at the K20 Grabbeplatz, Zvi Goldstein has created two editions for the series of editions issued by the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. Proceeds from sales will [Read More]
Only Three Weeks Remain to See Robotic Dinosaurs and Life-Size T. Rex Cast, Free with Museum Admission DENVER – The Denver Museum of Nature & Science invites visitors to experience T. Rex Encounter before it [Read More]
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science and Aspen‐based People’s Press are publishing a first‐person account of the historic Ice Age fossil find near Snowmass Village. Digging Snowmastodon: Discovering an Ice Age World in the [Read More]
The new octopus at the National Zoo revealed its true identity Saturday when a keeper helped it select its name: Pandora. The octopus had a chance to pick one of four names submitted by the [Read More]
David M. Rubenstein donated $4.5 million to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo to fund the giant panda program for the next five years. In appreciation, the giant panda complex—home to giant pandas Tian Tian (male) and [Read More]
The Museum of Arts & Sciences in Daytona presents Reflections II: Watercolors of Florida 1835-2000, from the Collection of Cici and Hyatt Brown an exhibition on view through March 25, 2012. This important and ravishing [Read More]
Nobody knows exactly when or how it happened, but more than 15,000 years ago, wolves began to interact with humans in a way that would eventually change some members of their species forever, and develop [Read More]