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5 unusual facts about American Museum


Clive Forster Cooper

He was elected to the Royal Society in 1936 and knighted in 1946 He was also a foreign member of the New York Academy of Sciences and of the American Museum.

Murphy Wall

Surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951-57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Robert Cushman Murphy, American ornithologist who made observations and collections in the Bay of Isles in 1912-13 for the American Museum of Natural History, New York.

Peter de Francia

He worked from 1949 to 1950 at the Canadian Government Exhibition Commission in Ottawa, and subsequently in the Architects' Department, American Museum, New York (1950–51).

Susan Powers

Her paintings are in many permanent collections, including the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. and the American Museum in Bath, England.

Symra

Symra was printed by Decorah-posten's trykkeri in the Lutheran Publishing House, now a primary building of the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in Decorah, Iowa.


Pauline Fjelde

Her works have been on display at the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts and are in a permanent collection at Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in Decorah, Iowa.


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Benton-C Bainbridge

Their projects include visuals for one week of concerts at the gate of Daming Palace in Xi'an and "One Step Beyond" an immersive audio visual event in the "Hall Of The Universe" at American Museum of Natural History, at which they are the resident visual designers and live visualists.

Catharine Lorillard Wolfe

Wolfe's gift of $200,000 was the first permanent endowment fund for buying art ever given to a major American museum.

Charles Parkhurst

Charles Percy Parkhurst (1913–2008), American museum curator who recovered works stolen by Nazis

Craftsmanship Museum

The Joe Martin Foundation Craftsmanship Museum also known as the Craftmanship Museum and Miniature Engineering Museum is an American museum located in Carlsbad, California that collects and displays unique carefully crafted objects of metal and wood.

Dede Wilsey

In 2005, she raised $190 million to rebuild the earthquake-damaged De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, one of the largest collective gifts ever made to an American museum.

Fruitlands

Fruitlands Museum, American museum on site of transcendental center; in 1997 Fruitlands Museums Historic District was added to National Register of Historic Places

Jesup

Morris Ketchum Jesup, banker, philanthropist, president of the American Museum of Natural History and the Peary Arctic Club.

Leslie Van Gelder

As daughter of American Museum of Natural History curator Richard Van Gelder, she spent periods of her childhood involved in field work with him in East Africa and in the U.S. National Parks.

Richard Van Gelder, curator of Mammalogy at the American Museum of Natural History, was her father.

Milstein Hall of Ocean Life

Paul Milstein was a legendary real estate developer, business leader and philanthropist and Irma Milstein is a long-time Board member of the American Museum of Natural History.

Nathan C. Brooks

Brooks, who was a friend of the famed poet Edgar Allan Poe, published several of Poe's works in The American Museum.

He also was the owner of The American Museum, a literary magazine, in which he published several works of the famed poet Edgar Allan Poe, and the author of several textbooks on classical literature.

Parkhurst

Charles Percy Parkhurst (1913–2008), American museum curator who recovered works stolen by Nazis

Per Ivarson Undi

Naeseth, Gerhard B. Norwegian Immigrants to the United States, A Biographical Directory, 1825-1850. 2 vols. (Madison, WI: Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, 1997)

Saya Woolfalk

Her first major solo exhibition at a North American museum opened at the Montclair Art Museum in October 2012.

The Narragansett Dawn

She also preserved their history by founding the only Native American museum in Rhode Island, the Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum.