Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 11-068
National Museum of Natural History. Office of Exhibits
Special Exhibition Records, 1985, 1988, 1991-1995, 1998-2007
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records documenting special exhibitions and traveling exhibitions produced or hosted at the National Museum of Natural History. Exhibitions documented in this accession include "Baseball as America;" "America's Wildest Places: Our National Wildlife Refuge System;" "A Place Called Home;" "Dinotopia;" "Emissaries of Peace: The 1762 Cherokee and British Delegations;" "Eliot Porter: The Color of Wildness;" "Vanished Kingdoms: The Wulsin Photographs of Tibet, China, and Mongolia, 1921-1925;" "Spirit of Ancient Colombian Gold;" "Passion for Plants: Contemporary Art from the Shirley Sherwood Collection;" "Peter Rabbit's Garden;" "Modern Mongolia: Reclaiming Genghis Khan;" "Caves: A Fragile Wilderness;" "Hawaiian Treasures;" "In Stabiano: Exploring the Ancient Seaside Villas of the Roman Elite;" "Looking Both Ways: Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People;" "Through the Lens: National Geographic Greatest Portraits;" "Burgess Shale: Evolution's Big Bang;" "Masters of the Ocean Realm: Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises;" "Korean American Century;" "Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand;" "World of Wonders;" "Desert and Sea: Visions of Baja California;" "Subhankar Banerjee: Seasons of Life and Land;" "Picture Puzzles: Red Cloud's Manikin and His Uncle's Shirt;" "Transitions: Photographs by Robert Creamer;" "Visual Griots;" "Ancient Microworlds;" "Wondrous Cold: An Antarctic Journey;" "Lewis and Clark: The National Bicentennial Exhibit;" "Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska;" "Beyond the Java Sea: Art of Indonesia's Outer Islands;" "Kimono as Art: The Landscapes of Itchiku Kubota;" "Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People;" "Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga;" "Anteaters: Fast Food Specialists;" "Spiders!;" "Shark!;" "Meteorites on a Mission;" "Voyages of Discovery;" "Making of the Natural History Museum's Galapagos IMAX Film;" "Buccellati: Art in Gold, Silver, and Gems;" "Royal Tombs of Sipan;" "Seeds of Change;" and "Wonder Bound: Rare Books on Early Museums." Materials include memoranda, correspondence, press releases, object lists, scripts, installation images, floor plans, architectural drawings, brochures, budgets, checklists, schedules, exhibition catalogs, graphic elements, videos, maps, ephemera, and related materials. Some materials are in electronic format.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- A Place Called Home (Exhibition) (2001-2002: Washington, D.C.)
- A Place Called Home (Traveling exhibition)
- Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People (Exhibition) (1999: Washington, D.C.)
- America's Wildest Places: Our National Wildlife Refuge System (Exhibition) (2003-2004: Washington, D.C.)
- America's Wildest Places: Our National Wildlife Refuge System (Traveling exhibition)
- Ancient Microworlds (Exhibition) (2005: Washington, D.C.)
- Anteaters: Fast Food Specialists (Traveling exhibition)
- Baseball as America (Exhibition) (2004: Washington, D.C.)
- Baseball as America (Traveling exhibition)
- Beyond the Java Sea: Art of Indonesia's Outer Islands (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Beyond the Java Sea: Art of Indonesia's Outer Islands (Traveling exhibition)
- Buccellati: Art in Gold, Silver, and Gems (Exhibition) (2000: Washington, D.C.)
- Burgess Shale: Evolution's Big Bang (Exhibition) (2003-2004: Washington, D.C.)
- Burgess Shale: Evolution's Big Bang (Traveling exhibition)
- Caves: A Fragile Wilderness (Traveling exhibition)
- Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska (Exhibition) (1988: Washington, D.C.)
- Desert and Sea: Visions of Baja California (Exhibition) (c. 2000: Washington, D.C.)
- Desert and Sea: Visions of Baja California (Traveling exhibition)
- Dinotopia (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.)
- Dinotopia (Traveling exhibition)
- Eliot Porter: The Color of Wildness (Exhibition) (2003: Washington, D.C.)
- Eliot Porter: The Color of Wildness (Traveling exhibition)
- Emissaries of Peace: The 1762 Cherokee and British Delegations (Exhibition) (2007: Washington, D.C.)
- Emissaries of Peace: The 1762 Cherokee and British Delegations (Traveling exhibition)
- Hawaiian Treasures (Exhibition) (2004-2005: Washington, D.C.)
- Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand (Exhibition) (2005: Washington, D.C.)
- Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand (Traveling exhibition)
- In Stabiano: Exploring the Ancient Seaside Villas of the Roman Elite (Exhibition) (2004: Washington, D.C.)
- In Stabiano: Exploring the Ancient Seaside Villas of the Roman Elite (Traveling exhibition)
- Kimono as Art: The Landscapes of Itchiku Kubota (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Kimono as Art: The Landscapes of Itchiku Kubota (Traveling exhibition)
- Korean American Century (Exhibition) (2003: Washington, D.C.)
- Korean American Century (Traveling exhibition)
- Lewis and Clark: The National Bicentennial Exhibit (2006: Washington, D.C.)
- Lewis and Clark: The National Bicentennial Exhibit (Traveling exhibition)
- Looking Both Ways: Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People (Exhibition) (2001: Washington, D.C.)
- Looking Both Ways: Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People (Traveling exhibition)
- Making of the Natural History Museum's Galapagos IMAX Film (Exhibition) (1999: Washington, D.C.)
- Masters of the Ocean Realm: Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises (Exhibition) (2001-2002: Washington, D.C.)
- Masters of the Ocean Realm: Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises (Traveling exhibition)
- Meteorites on a Mission (Exhibition) (2000: Washington, D.C.)
- Modern Mongolia: Reclaiming Genghis Khan (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.)
- Modern Mongolia: Reclaiming Genghis Khan (Traveling exhibition)
- Passion for Plants: Contemporary Art from the Shirley Sherwood Collection (Exhibitions) (2003: Washington, D.C.)
- Peter Rabbit's Garden (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.)
- Peter Rabbit's Garden (Traveling exhibition)
- Picture Puzzles: Red Cloud's Manikin and His Uncle's Shirt (Exhibition) (2003: Washington, D.C.)
- Royal Tombs of Sipan (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Royal Tombs of Sipan (Traveling exhibition)
- Seeds of Change (Exhibition) (1991-1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Seeds of Change (Traveling exhibition) (1992-1995)
- Shark! (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- Spiders! (Exhibition) (1994: Washington, D.C.)
- Spiders! (Traveling exhibition) (1994-2000 )
- Spirit of Ancient Colombian Gold (Exhibition) (2005-2006: Washington, D.C.)
- Subhankar Banerjee: Seasons of Life and Land (Exhibition) (2003: Washington, D.C.)
- Through the Lens: National Geographic Greatest Portraits (Exhibition) (c. 2003: Washington, D.C.)
- Through the Lens: National Geographic Greatest Portraits (Traveling exhibition)
- Transitions: Photographs by Robert Creamer (Exhibition) (2006-2007: Washington, D.C.)
- Transitions: Photographs by Robert Creamer (Traveling exhibition)
- Vanished Kingdoms: The Wulsin Photographs of Tibet, China, and Mongolia, 1921-1925 (Exhibition) (2006: Washington, D.C.)
- Vanished Kingdoms: The Wulsin Photographs of Tibet, China, and Mongolia, 1921-1925 (Traveling exhibition)
- Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga (Exhibition) (2000: Washington, D.C.)
- Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga (Traveling exhibition) (2000-2003)
- Visual Griots (Exhibition) (2006-2007: Washington, D.C.)
- Visual Griots (Traveling exhibition)
- Voyages of Discovery (Exhibition) (2001: Washington, D.C.)
- Voyages of Discovery (Traveling exhibition)
- Wonder Bound: Rare Books on Early Museums (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.)
- Wondrous Cold: An Antarctic Journey (Exhibition) (2006: Washington, D.C.)
- Wondrous Cold: An Antarctic Journey (Traveling exhibition)
- World of Wonders (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.)
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Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 11-068, National Museum of Natural History. Office of Exhibits, Special Exhibition Records