http://www.snomnh.ou.edu/blog Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:31:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last night was Members Night Behind the Scenes at the museum. I think I've said this before but I'll say it again. This is the best event we do all year. It's the one time when all the collections and laboratories are open for guests to wander ... http://www.snomnh.ou.edu/blog/?p=103 [caption id="attachment_98" align="alignleft" width="288" caption="Kerry Magruder, curator, OU Libraries History of Science Collection, unpacks a first edition of Darwin's "Voyage of the Beagle""][/caption] This morning, the first-editions of Darwin's books arrived from the University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collection. Curator Kerry Magruder brought them himself, packed in four ... http://www.snomnh.ou.edu/blog/?p=99 Here's a nice shot of the completed model of the HMS Beagle that will appear in the museum's upcoming exhibition "Darwin at the Museum." http://www.snomnh.ou.edu/blog/?p=96 [caption id="attachment_90" align="alignright" width="360" caption="Cover of The Voyage of the Beagle"][/caption] Our exhibits team is hard at work these days, preparing to mount two special exhibitions at the museum on October 10. One of them I have mentioned here before: Drawing the Motmot, a collection of artwork by Debby ... http://www.snomnh.ou.edu/blog/?p=88 [caption id="attachment_84" align="alignright" width="360" caption="Paul Sereno (center) talks with reporters in the museum's Hall of Ancient Life"][/caption] This weekend the museum received a surprise visit from Paul Sereno, paleontologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence from the University of Chicago.  Most folks with a natural history bent will recognize Dr. Sereno from his ... http://www.snomnh.ou.edu/blog/?p=81 On Sept. 29, OU's IDEA Club, a student organization that supports the notion of "Intelligent Design," has rented the museum's Kerr Auditorium to screen a film produced by the Discovery Institute titled "Darwin's Dilemma." National press releases sent out by the Discovery Institute were worded in a way to give ... http://www.snomnh.ou.edu/blog/?p=77 Although the summer is the busiest time of year for the museum – and this summer even more so because of a tendency for folks to stay at home and explore attractions in their own backyards rather than fork out the money for travel – the fall is when things ... http://www.snomnh.ou.edu/blog/?p=73 [caption id="attachment_70" align="alignright" width="1016" caption="Vertebrate Paleontology curator Richard Cifelli sits under the lights during a Discovery Channel shoot in the collection"][/caption] Last Friday the museum hosted a film crew working on a new program for the Discovery Channel. The show will focus on Prehistoric Predators, and one of the predators ... http://www.snomnh.ou.edu/blog/?p=68 The 12 students accepted for Oklahoma Science Adventure got started today, up at Rogers State University in Claremore. They had a ropes course experience this morning to do some teamwork training, and after lunch they began the actual fieldwork. They'll be running nets for fish in various ponds ... http://www.snomnh.ou.edu/blog/?p=65 [caption id="attachment_63" align="alignleft" width="360" caption="A young explorer wades in a local pond in the museum's Slime and Scales class"][/caption] This is the time of year when our Summer Explorers program is in full swing. Every day our education team leads groups of kids out into the ponds, streams, fields and ... http://www.snomnh.ou.edu/blog/?p=61