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 [Read More]
Natural History
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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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
Eight days earlier than in record-breaking year 2010, Hannover Adventure Zoo was pleased to welcome its millionth visitor on August 3, 2011. The guest of honor, Katja Seeliger from Rellingen close to Hamburg, entered the [Read More]
The Evansville Museum presents The Nature of Things: Photographs by Bill Vieth, on view through August 14, 2011. The Nature of Things: Photographs by Bill Vieth has a special emphasis on his collection of bird [Read More]
Fifteen Field Museum scientists participate in rapid biological survey of Michigan City, Indiana’s natural areas Field Museum scientists organized and participated in a day-long “BioBlitz” to survey six natural areas in the Trail Creek Watershed [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History presents “Against All Odds,” exhibition commemorating the heroic rescue of 33 Chilean miners. The exhibition will open to the public Aug. 5, exactly one year after the mine [Read More]
The Museum of the North presents Power Play: Fueling Alaska’s Future an exhibition on view through January 3, 2012. The exhibit looks at the balance of energy in Alaska. University of Alaska Museum of the [Read More]
The Museum of the North at the University of Alaska reports a member of a geological team working in Southeast Alaska chanced upon a find during an extremely low tide. Something caught team member Eugene [Read More]
The National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, joins forces with the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies in Banff and the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y) for a new exhibition that draws [Read More]
Visitors to the National Museum of Wildlife Art may see cranes, hard hats, and a little dust but they will also see much more: Even as the museum continues its ambitious schedule of sculpture trail [Read More]
The Museum of Coastal Carolina celebrates its 20th anniversary in September 2011. The Ocean Isle Museum Foundation, Inc. (OIMF) is a non-profit organization with two facilities, the Museum of Coastal Carolina and Ingram Planetarium. The [Read More]