Fossil Reptiles Exhibit, NMNH

ID: SIA 2009-2189 and MNH-1136

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: 1963

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44, Folder 14

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Summary

The Fossil Reptiles Exhibit opened in June 1963 in the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, as part of the Exhibits Modernization Program. This section of the exhibit displays a skeleton of an Anatosaurus, a typical duck-billed dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada.

Subject

  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
  • National Museum of Natural History. (U.S.) Division of Vertebrate Paleontology
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Division of Paleontology and Paleobotany
  • Exhibits Modernization Program United States National Museum
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Paleobiology
  • United States National Museum

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44, Folder 14

Contact information

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

Date

1963

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Dinosaurs
  • Herpetology
  • Fossil Vertebrates
  • Specimens
  • Exhibitions
  • Reptiles, Fossil
  • Skeleton
  • Anatosaurus
  • Paleontology
  • Late Cretaceous
  • Fossils
  • Alberta, Canada

Place

Alberta, Canada

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Exhibit

ID Number

SIA 2009-2189 and MNH-1136

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print

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