1961-1962 - American Museum of Natural History

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increase was not unexpected; it had been planned for some ten years ago. In 1955, a supervisorship of adult programs was established, with Mr. C. Bruce Hunter in this post; and in 1959, the Museum created its first division of adult education. The staff, consisting of the supervisor, three senior instructors, and one instructor, is augmented by members of the scientific staff and outside lecturers. Last year eighteen courses for teachers were given, each carrying college credit of two points. Two courses at graduate level were offered during the National Science Foundation Summer Institute, and 20 lecture courses were given in the adult school. In addition, the adult education division conducted a series of gallery talks and slide lectures, the "Wednesday Film Programs for Adults," the "Adult Student Council Programs," and the "Nurses Education Program," for a total of 3324 sessions of instruction. Last year, the total student body for all the teaching and lecturing programs of the department was 233,390 individuals who received 435,463 student hours of instruction in 12,120 sessions in classrooms, laboratories, workshops, lecture rooms, and exhibition halls, as well as in the field. DEPARTMENT OF EXHIBITION AND GRAPHIC ARTS Gordon R. Reekie, Chairman While planning and exhibit design for new halls continued, several long-term exhibition projects were completed, and the largest and most ambitious temporary exhibit in the history of the Museum was installed. All fourteen of the habitat groups of small North American mammals have been finished. These are to be installed in the first-floor corridor connecting the Hall of North American Mammals with the Hall of Northwest Coast Indians. Renovation of the Hall of Northwest Coast Indians was completed, and the new lighting, which provides dramatic contrast between brilliance and shadow, displays the totem poles to full 54
advantage for the first time. All exhibits were completed, and the audio-visual demonstrations of bird calls were installed in the alcove "Courtship in Birds" in the Hall of the Biology of Birds, thereby completing this hall. Work continued in the Hall of North American Birds throughout the year. Eight more habitat groups were prepared, bringing the total finished to eighteen. Particularly noteworthy is the new Bald Eagle habitat, for which a field trip was made to Haines, Alaska, in October, 1961. In addition, the new Condor mural has been finished, and the old Flamingo background painting by Fuertes has been restored as a matching panel to the Condor mural. Work progressed on the "Eocene Life," "Paleocene Life," and "Archaic Ungulates" exhibits in the Hall of Early Mammals. Several exhibits in the Hall of Oil Geology were revised and brought up to date. The Halls of Fishes and Ocean Life were closed in May, 1962, as the first step in the program of exhibition hall building that will include the reconstruction of the Hall of Ocean Life, to take place in 1963, and the construction of the new Hall of the Biology of Invertebrates, which has already been started. Plans for the designs of exhibits in these two halls are continuing, and all the Fiberglas porpoise models for the Porpoise Group in the Hall of Ocean Life have been made. Designs were also continued for the Halls of Eastern Woodlands and Plains Indians and the Peoples of Africa. Actual preparation of exhibits has been started in the Indian Hall. The "Man In Space" exhibit was an outstanding event in the 1961-1962 season. The exhibit, which opened early in 1961 with a reconstruction of the Mercury Space Capsule, was expanded to feature a facsimile of a manned space station, ARIES (Authentic Representation of an Independent Earth Satellite). Another temporary exhibit, sponsored jointly by the Museum and the International Telephone and Telegraph Company, Inc., was "Art and Life in Old Peru," which was on display for 55
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