“It may be fairly claimed that vertebrate paleontology has been the most important single factor in the rise and popularization of natural history museums. This is perhaps its greatest contribution to the social, as opposed to the scientific, history of America” (Simpson 1942, 157).
The Epistemological Challenge of Model Whales
History of the AMNH Fossil Halls – Part 1 and Part 2
History of the FMNH Fossil Halls – Part 1 and Part 2
Bully for Camarasaurus – The True Story of How “Brontosaurus” Lost its Head
The Diplodocus Seen ‘Round the World
The Artist in His Museum: Peale’s Mastodon
First Full-Sized Dinosaurs: Crystal Palace and Hadrosaurus
Installation Art in the Service of Science – Barosaurus as Art
Framing Fossil Exhibits – Intro, Walk Through Time, Phylogeny, Habitat Immersion, Environmental Change
Reference
Simpson, G.G. (1942). The Beginnings of Vertebrate Paleontology in North Ameirca. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 86:130-188.
