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Experience the new exhibit ‘THRIVE’ along with fun July events at the Arizona Museum of Natural History
With three floors of prehistoric fun, the Arizona Museum of Natural History in Mesa is keeping things cool this summer with ...
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Dioramas at L.A.'s Museum of Natural History are stuffed with things to think about - Los Angeles Times
In the 1970s, photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto became famous for his “Dioramas” series, photographs of habitat groups, including some at the Natural History Museum, that leave out any evidence of ...
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A new book reveals the deep flaws in our natural history museums
Natural history museums teach us about our world, but they aren’t telling us the whole story, writes curator Jack Ashby in ...
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Explore the History of the Planet With David Attenborough at This New Immersive Experience in London
"Our Story With David Attenborough" at the Natural History Museum is a 50-minute program that explores humankind's role in ...
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New York’s American Museum of Natural History to remove human remains from exhibits, including some from Indigenous and enslaved Black people - CNN
The American Museum of Natural History in New York will remove all human remains displayed in its exhibits and is preparing a new storage location for its collection of 12,000 remains – which ...
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A natural history museum questions what ‘natural’ means
Curators viewed such specimens as boring. Or they didn’t fit ideas of natural history in the culture of the 19th and 20th Century, when the museums were being built. Stephen Tonsor, Director of ...
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Facing Scrutiny, a Museum That Holds 12,000 Human Remains Changes Course (Published 2023) - The New York Times
Years earlier, in the 1930s, the natural history museum had asked Columbia for “human dissecting material,” but the request was shot down. In a 1932 letter, Willard C. Rappleye, ...