Tag: museum
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Adam Savage at the American Museum of Natural History
The AMNH has a new exhibit called “Impact: The End of the Age of Dinosaurs”. Adam Savage visited the museum just before the exhibit opened in November, There are a series of videos on Youtube. How do you come up with the physical representation of animals we know lived on Earth, when the evidence of…
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PRI’s Wonderful Life
Here’s a followup to the New York Times’ post about the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) and the Museum of the Earth’s financial woes… they found funding and will continue operation! By late summer, although gifts continued to arrive at roughly twice the rate of previous “normal” years, larger gifts had slowed and we were still…
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An Engine of Fossil Discovery Fights Its Own Extinction
The New York Times has a story about the financial troubles at the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N.Y. The institution was establish almost 100 years ago and has amassed one of the largest collections of fossils in North America. “No one has ever experienced trying to rehouse a…
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National Geographic: New Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi features two fighting T. rexes
National Geographic has a story about the new Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi, which opened on November 22nd, 2025. The videos for the story are stunning. It huge with not one, but four sauropods on display. They have two T-rexes, which are displayed fighting. The museum also documents the natural history of the region and…
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Grand Opening of the Cambridge Natural History Museum
Cambridge Illinois has a new museum… the Cambridge Natural History Museum. It opened up August 10th, 2024 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Cambridge Natural History Museum will hold a grand opening celebration Saturday, August 10th, 2024 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Located at 132 W Center Street, Cambridge, IL, the museum will showcase…
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Prof. Says Paleontology Program Could Meet Same Fate As Subject Matter
WGTD Public Radio has a story about Carthage College’s paleontology program. Prof Thomas Carr, who has spoken to ESCONI a few times in the past, put our a statement that funding is needed to keep their program viable. The museum at Carthage College in Kenosha is amazing. Their Paleontology Lab website shows who they are…
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Throwback Thursday #94: Dave’s Down to Earth Rock Shop – September 1973
This is Throwback Thursday #94. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Dave’s Down To Earth Rock Shop was established in 1970 by the then twenty year old Dave Douglass. …
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Mazon Monday #83: George Langford at the Illinois State Museum
This is Mazon Monday post #83. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. As part of the trip to the 2021 MAPS Expo in Springfield, IL this past weekend, a few ESCONI members took the opportunity to visit the Mazon Creek exhibit at the Illinois State Museum. George Langford donated a large…
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Art Exhibition “human / nature” at the Illinois State Museum
ESCONI member Andrew Young is participating in a new art exhibition at the Illinois State Museum. The exhibition is called “human / nature: the weight of our actions on the natural world”. It runs from July 31st, 2021 until January 29th 2022 and is sure to be an enlightening and stimulating experience. Check it out! …
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See Inside the American Museum of Natural History’s New Hall of Gems
Artnet has a story about a the AMNH’s new Hall of Gems. The new hall has been dedicated to “Nature’s Art”. The Artnet article is interesting with both pictures and descriptions. If you’re in NY, don’t miss this new exhibit. Four years ago, the Halls of Gems and Minerals at New York’s American Museum of Natural History closed for long-overdue renovations. The…
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Five Little Known Facts About the Field Museum
Mark Alvey, Academic Communications Manager and resident history buff, shares his favorite facts about the Museum. They are obscure, quirky, and all Field Museum—watch now! Our vast collections began in 1893 with the World’s Columbian Exposition and continue to fuel the work of our scholars.
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AMNH: Sir David Attenborough on Museum Collections – 360
The American Museum of Natural History has a video on Natural History collections. It’s narrated by Sir David Attenborough. You may know the American Museum of Natural History’s exhibits, but only a tiny portion of our world-class collection is on view. Go behind the scenes in 360 with Sir David Attenborough as he explains…
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Teenage T. Rex Fossils Reveal Haphazard Growth Spurts
Smithsonian Magazine has an article about teenage T. rex fossils. The article discusses a recent paper that appeared in Science Advances. That paper readdresses the two sleek, and slender tyrannosaurs, nicknamed Jane and Petey, at the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford, Illinois and concludes that the two specimens are juvenile T. rexes, not…
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ScienceMag: Countries demand their fossils back, forcing natural history museums to confront their past
Science Magazine has a story about natural history museums having to re-assess how fossils were obtained in the past. Back during the colonial period, expeditions were launch to the vast corners of the world and many valuable specimens were brought back to Europe. Now, the countries that currently occupy those corners are asking for their…
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The American Museum of Natural History Is Turning 150!
The American Museum of Natural History is turning 150 years old this year! All the details are here. Special Events for 2019 Discover the stories behind your favorite exhibits (more added each month!) Signup for their newsletter.
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Come See Tyler Keillor’s Dryptosaurus at the Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake County Grand Opening Event on Saturday, March 24th, 2018
Tyler Keillor, a past ESCONI member and paleo-artist will have his latest work, a Dyptosaurus, unveiled at the Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake Count on Saturday, March 24th, 2018 from 10 AM to 5 PM. Details are here. “… The Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake County invites visitors of all ages to attend its grand…
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Dinomania: the story of our obsession with dinosaurs
The Guardian has a story about our ongoing obsession with dinosaurs. It’s all there from the beginning in the 1840s to the present. Enjoy! Deep in the bowels of the world’s greatest palaeontological museum, a hitherto unknown species of dinosaur has been waiting to be unveiled. Concealed behind a black cloth, it has spent the…
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Theft at Johannesburg Geological Museum
We have to inform you that the Johannesburg Geological museum has suffered yet another recent theft of specimens and this has been a major theft. Most of the gemstones were stolen as well as some mineral specimens. Two of the mineral specimens are rhodochrosites from the Kalahari manganese field. There are two pictures attached of…
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Thomas Carr: Decoding Dinosaurs at Carthage
By Mary Fairchild Last week, we had the pleasure of dining with Thomas Carr and his wife Belinda prior the ESCONI general meeting where we were delighted to hear him speak on his important work at Carthage. “‘Dinosaurs Decoded” premiered Oct. 11, 2009, on the National Geographic Channel. The documentary features Prof. Carr, a vertebrate…
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Museums of Interest
So many museums, so little time…. check out our list of some of our favorites in Chicago, the United States and internationally (list always being updated) …. Chicagoland Illinois Midwest Farther Afield
