Natural History Museum

Your Burning Dinosaur Questions: Answered

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 05.30.2012

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There's something about wandering into empty halls filled with dinosaur fossils at the American Museum of Natural History that immediately awakens the...

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Will Smith Tells High Schoolers The Secret To His Career

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 05.24.2012

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NEW YORK -- The Hayden Planetarium at Manhattan's Natural History Museum has been home to many famous voices over the last decade. Tom Hanks, Liam...

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PHOTOS: 'Animal Inside Out' Exhibition Shows Guts, Blood Vessels

Posted 04.05.2012

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Do the 'plasticized' cadavers in German anatomist Gunther von Hagens' "Body Worlds exhibitions take your breath away, or get under your skin? What...

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On the Culture Front: Gatz, 4000 Miles, Rediscovering the Natural History Museum, and More

Chris Kompanek | Posted 04.04.2012

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It's heartening that one of the hottest theater tickets of the season is a word-for-word staging of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

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Occupy The Weekend

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 03.31.2012

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FRIDAY Dinosaurs, Languages & Hip Hop What: The Natural History Museum opens its doors for another "First Fridays" evening of discussions, performan...

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Oldest U.S. Natural History Museum Offers Rare Look At Creatures

AP | JOANN LOVIGLIO | Posted 05.24.2012

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PHILADELPHIA — The Academy of Natural Sciences has never been one to brag. Its 225,000 annual visitors may associate the nation's oldest natura...

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Adults Are Kids, Too: Dinosaurs, Dr. Suess & More

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 03.02.2012

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FRIDAY Fashion On Wheels What: Get fashionable this Friday with Kate Spade and Brooklyn indie band Vivian Girls's traveling bus tour. The bus is dec...

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PHOTOS: Meet Your 'Cave Parents'

Posted 01.06.2012

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What did our 'cave parents' look like? Without a family album going back 7 million years, it can be tough to imagine them, especially when all we see ...

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Will This Building Do "What The Sydney Opera House Did For Australia?"

Jacob Slevin | Posted 01.09.2012

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In just over a week, the Natural History Museum of Utah will re-open to the public along the Wasatch Range, a the 17-acre site at the edge of the City and the University of Utah campus, viewing out towards the Great Salt Lake, the Oquirrhs mountain range, Kennecott copper mines, Mount Olympus and Salt Lake City.

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My LA: Allis Markham on Taxidermy, Pinot Noir & Weddings In LA

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucy Blodgett | Posted 01.31.2012

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MY LA: Allis Markham Current Gig: Owner of Prey Taxidermy, volunteer taxidermist at the Natural History Museum. LA Transplant or Native Angele...

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PLAN ForYourArt: October 6-12

Bettina Korek | Posted 12.07.2011

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In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, and Betye Saar were emerging L.A. artists, and the Natural History Museum exhibited the work of all three.

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Sondheim Treasure Hunt In The Natural History Museum!

AP | By MARK KENNEDY | Posted 12.04.2011

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NEW YORK -- A treasure hunt devised by composer Stephen Sondheim prompted hundreds of people, including Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, to...

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'Carmageddon' Was A Cultural Boon For LA: Report

Posted 09.20.2011

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All the people praising the 405 closure for its effect on Los Angeles actually have some numbers on their side. Culturally, "Carmageddon" boosted muse...

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PLAN ForYourArt: July 14-20

Bettina Korek | Posted 09.12.2011

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Design's ability to move us towards a more sustainable and creative urban lifestyle is at the heart of Little Tokyo Design Week, which will be open to the public from July 14 - July 17.

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She-Male Butterfly Is Born

Posted 09.11.2011

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Is this Madame Or Monsieur Butterfly? A rare half-female, half-male hatched from its cocoon at London's Natural History Museum, stunning researche...

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Museum Of Natural History And Carl Akeley's Jounrey To Build Its African Wing

Jay Kirk | Posted 05.25.2011

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Renowned taxidermist Carl Akeley joined the hunters rushing to Africa, where he risked death time and again as he stalked animals for his dioramas and hobnobbed with outsized personalities of the era such as Theodore Roosevelt and P. T. Barnum.

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BIG BROTHER ART: The Museum Is Watching You

wsj.com | By ISAAC ARNSDORF | Posted 05.25.2011

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Matt Sikora doesn't look at the Rembrandts and Rodins at the Detroit Institute of Arts. His eyes are trained on the people looking at them. Mr. Sikor...

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Butterflies Arrive At American Museum Of Natural History

Posted 05.25.2011

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Since first opening at the American Museum of Natural History in 1998, the Butterfly Conservatory has been cherished by millions of children and adult...

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Smallest Dinosaur's Bones Identified; Looked Like A "Roadrunner On Steroids,"

AP/ Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES -- Fossil bones housed at a Los Angeles museum belong to the smallest dinosaur discovered in North America, scientists said Tuesday. Th...

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Endangered Species' DNA To Be Stored At Natural History Museum

AP | Verena Dobnik | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK (AP) -- It's not your average library collection: Bits of scorpions and snakes. Tissue from jaguars. Leeches from a hippopotamus. Officials ...

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Culture in NYC ? Bring Lots of Cash

David R. Jones, Esq. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cultural institutions which used to be free or very low cost have increased their admission fees to make it virtually impossible for anyone but the upper middle class and wealthy from attending them.

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Go Green by Eating More of Your Greens

Bill Chameides | Posted 11.17.2011

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600 gallons of water are needed to produce a single hamburger -- that's enough water to hydrate a person for over 3 years. Going vegetarian is probably the boldest step any of us can take to lead a greener life.

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