Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Established | 1895 |
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Location | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Coordinates | 40°26′37″N 79°57′00″W / 40.44361°N 79.95000°W |
Type | Natural History |
Visitors | 300,000 |
Director | Gretchen Baker |
Public transit access | 54, 58, 61A, 61B, 61C, 61D, 67, 69 |
Nearest parking | On site and street |
Website | carnegiemnh |
The Carnegie Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as CMNH) is a
Description and history
The museum consists of 115,000 square feet (10,700 m2) organized into 20 galleries as well as research, library, and office space. It holds some 22 million specimens, of which about 10,000 are on view at any given time and about 1 million are cataloged in online databases. In 2008 it hosted 386,300 admissions and 63,000 school group visits. Museum education staff also actively engage in outreach by traveling to schools all around western Pennsylvania.
The museum gained prominence in 1899 when its scientists unearthed the fossils of
Research teams including former Carnegie scientists made critical discoveries such as Puijila darwini, Castorocauda lutrasimilis, and Hadrocodium wui.
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Portion of the dinosaur exhibit.
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Fossil fish
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Fossil specimen ofSolnhofen limestone
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Mummies from the Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt.
Other major exhibits include Hillman Hall of Minerals and Gems, Alcoa Foundation Hall of American Indians, Polar World: Wyckoff Hall of Arctic Life, Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt, Benedum Hall of Geology, Dinosaurs in Their Time, and Powdermill Nature Reserve, established by the museum in 1956 to serve as a field station for long-term studies of natural populations.
The museum's active curatorial departments are:
Scientific publications
Carnegie Museum of Natural History publishes scholarly journals and books including Annals of Carnegie Museum, which offers peer-reviewed articles in organismal biology, earth sciences, and anthropology; Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History, offering monographs or collections of related papers from symposia; and Special Publications of Carnegie Museum, documenting special topics or areas of research.
See also
- Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
- Carnegie Collection
- List of museums in Pennsylvania
- Andrey Avinoff
- Rudyerd Boulton
- Andrew Carnegie
- Benjamin Preston Clark
- Mary R. Dawson
- Carl H. Eigenmann
- John Bell Hatcher
- William Jacob Holland
- Lion Attacking a Dromedary
- Bradley C. Livezey
- M. Graham Netting
- Arnold Edward Ortmann
- Albert Schwartz
- Richard Shine
- James L. Swauger
- Walter Edmond Clyde Todd
- Richard Vogt
References
- ^ Batz, Bob Jr. (July 2, 1999). "Dippy the star-spangled dinosaur". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Pittsburgh. Archived from the original on June 29, 2011. Retrieved August 11, 2009.
- ^ Switek, Brian (October 16, 2013). "My T. Rex Is Bigger Than Yours". National Geographic. Pittsburgh. Archived from the original on October 16, 2013. Retrieved June 16, 2014.
- ^ Webner, Richard (March 20, 2014). "Carnegie Museum unveils dinosaur nicknamed 'chicken from hell'". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Pittsburgh. Retrieved April 14, 2014.
External links
- Official website
- Carnegie Museums
- Coleman J. Goin (in French)
- LeRoy Kershaw Henry (in Spanish)
- Kenneth C. Parkes (in Finnish)