Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 15-191
National Museum of Natural History
Website Records, 2014
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of the Fossil Hall section of the National Museum of Natural History website as it existed on April 15, 2014, the day of the arrival of the new Tyrannosaurus rex fossils (dubbed the Nation's T. Rex). The section includes information about the arrival and preparation of the fossils as well as the closure of the Fossil Hall on April 27, 2014, and the temporary exhibitions, "The Rex Room" and "The Last American Dinosaurs: Discovering a Lost World," which would open in the coming months. Due to technical issues, videos may not function properly. 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
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Fossil Hall
- The Last American Dinosaurs: Discovering a Lost World (Exhibition) (2014-2018: Washington, D.C.)
- The Rex Room (Exhibition) (2014: Washington, D.C.)
Subject
- Dinosaurs
- Exhibitions
- Fossils
- Museums -- Public relations
- Natural history museums
- Tyrannosaurus rex
- Web sites
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 15-191, National Museum of Natural History, Website Records