Gemspok Group
This diorama depicts environment of the Gemsbok Group in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana.
The Akeley Hall of African Mammal is located directly behind the Theodore Roosevelt rotunda of the American Museum of Natural History. The hall is named after taxidermist Carl Akeley, who began collecting specimens for the hall as early as 1909. After his unexpected death during the 1926 Eastman-Pommeroy exhibition, completion of the hall fell to James K. Clark and it finallyy opened to the public in 1936. Today the two-story hall features 28 habitat dioramas detailing the great range of ecosystems found in Arica and the mammals endemic to them.
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), located at Central Park West and 79th Street, comprises of 28 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library, across 2-million square feet. The collections contain over 33 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, human remains, and human cultural artifacts. Founded in 1869, the museum opened in the original Victorian Gothic building designed by J. Wrey Mould in 1877. A southern expansion, a rusticated Richardsonian Romanesque by J. Cleveland Cady, extends 700 feet along West 77th Street and in 1936, John Russell Pope added the overscaled Beaux Arts entrance on Central Park West.
Gemspok Group
This diorama depicts environment of the Gemsbok Group in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana.
The Akeley Hall of African Mammal is located directly behind the Theodore Roosevelt rotunda of the American Museum of Natural History. The hall is named after taxidermist Carl Akeley, who began collecting specimens for the hall as early as 1909. After his unexpected death during the 1926 Eastman-Pommeroy exhibition, completion of the hall fell to James K. Clark and it finallyy opened to the public in 1936. Today the two-story hall features 28 habitat dioramas detailing the great range of ecosystems found in Arica and the mammals endemic to them.
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), located at Central Park West and 79th Street, comprises of 28 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library, across 2-million square feet. The collections contain over 33 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, human remains, and human cultural artifacts. Founded in 1869, the museum opened in the original Victorian Gothic building designed by J. Wrey Mould in 1877. A southern expansion, a rusticated Richardsonian Romanesque by J. Cleveland Cady, extends 700 feet along West 77th Street and in 1936, John Russell Pope added the overscaled Beaux Arts entrance on Central Park West.