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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 ...
"Our Story With David Attenborough" at the Natural History Museum is a 50-minute program that explores humankind's role in ...
Meghan Markle's appearance the the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County’s Night of Wonder gala has been postponed as protests continue in L.A. and the National Guard has been called in by ...
Natural history museums teach us about our world, but they aren’t telling us the whole story, writes curator Jack Ashby in ...
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 ...
Sotheby's is auctioning a Ceratosaurus skeleton that used to be displayed at the Mountain America Museum of Ancient Life in ...
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 ...
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, ...