Coral Reef Exhibit Opens NMNH

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Summary

The world's first living coral reef exhibition opens in the National Museum of Natural History. More than 3 tons of Caribbean coral was transported to construct the reef.

Subject

National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

  • Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1981. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982, p. 343.
  • Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 3, "The Torch," September 1980, p. 2.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

October 15, 1980

Topic

  • Firsts
  • Animals
  • Oceans
  • Exhibit openings
  • Exhibitions
  • Ichthyology
  • Biology
  • Invertebrates
  • Oceanography

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