Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Carnegie Museum of Natural History
	One of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
	Location of Carnegie Museum in Pennsylvania Carnegie Museum of Natural History (Pennsylvania) Carnegie Museum of Natural History (the United States)
Established	1895
Location	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°26′37″N 79°57′00″W / 40.44361°N 79.95000°W
Type	Natural History
Visitors	300,000
Director	Gretchen Baker
Public transit access	54, 58, 61A, 61B, 61C, 61D, 67, 69
Nearest parking	On site and street
Website	carnegiemnh.org

The Carnegie Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as CMNH) is a natural history museum in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was founded by Pittsburgh-based industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1896. Housing some 22 million specimens, the museum features one of the most extensive paleontological and entomological collections in the world.

Description and history

The museum consists of 115,000 square feet (10,700 m²) organized into 20 galleries as well as research, library, and office space. It holds some 22 million specimens, of which about 10,000 are on view at any given time and about 1 million are cataloged in online databases. In 2008 it hosted 386,300 admissions and 63,000 school group visits. Museum education staff also actively engage in outreach by traveling to schools all around western Pennsylvania.

The museum gained prominence in 1899 when its scientists unearthed the fossils of Diplodocus carnegii.^[1] Notable dinosaur specimens include one of the world's very few fossils of a juvenile Apatosaurus, the world's first specimen of a Tyrannosaurus rex,^[2] and a recently identified species of oviraptorosaur named Anzu wyliei.^[3]

Research teams including former Carnegie scientists made critical discoveries such as Puijila darwini, Castorocauda lutrasimilis, and Hadrocodium wui.

Portion of the dinosaur exhibit.
Fossil fish
Fossil specimen of Anaethalion knorri from the Solnhofen limestone
Mummies from the Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt.

Other major exhibits include Hillman Hall of Minerals and Gems, Alcoa Foundation Hall of American Indians, Polar World: Wyckoff Hall of Arctic Life, Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt, Benedum Hall of Geology, Dinosaurs in Their Time, and Powdermill Nature Reserve, established by the museum in 1956 to serve as a field station for long-term studies of natural populations.

The museum's active curatorial departments are: Anthropology, Birds, Botany, Herpetology (Amphibians & Reptiles), Invertebrate Paleontology, Invertebrate Zoology, Mammals, Minerals, Mollusks (Malacology), and Vertebrate Paleontology. These departments work collaboratively under strategic centers created to re-frame how the museum leverages its research, exhibitions, and public programming to meet the challenges and issues of today. In late 2013, however, the museum's parent organization and interim administration eliminated multiple scientific positions, seriously reducing its capacity to conduct original research.

Scientific publications

Gift shop inside Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Carnegie Museum of Natural History publishes scholarly journals and books including Annals of Carnegie Museum, which offers peer-reviewed articles in organismal biology, earth sciences, and anthropology; Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History, offering monographs or collections of related papers from symposia; and Special Publications of Carnegie Museum, documenting special topics or areas of research.

References

^ Batz, Bob Jr. (July 2, 1999). "Dippy the star-spangled dinosaur". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Pittsburgh. Archived from the original on June 29, 2011. Retrieved August 11, 2009.
^ Switek, Brian (October 16, 2013). "My T. Rex Is Bigger Than Yours". National Geographic. Pittsburgh. Archived from the original on October 16, 2013. Retrieved June 16, 2014.
^ Webner, Richard (March 20, 2014). "Carnegie Museum unveils dinosaur nicknamed 'chicken from hell'". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Pittsburgh. Retrieved April 14, 2014.

External links

[1] Batz, Bob Jr. (July 2, 1999). "Dippy the star-spangled dinosaur". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Pittsburgh. Archived from the original on June 29, 2011. Retrieved August 11, 2009.

[2] Switek, Brian (October 16, 2013). "My T. Rex Is Bigger Than Yours". National Geographic. Pittsburgh. Archived from the original on October 16, 2013. Retrieved June 16, 2014.

[3] Webner, Richard (March 20, 2014). "Carnegie Museum unveils dinosaur nicknamed 'chicken from hell'". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Pittsburgh. Retrieved April 14, 2014.

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Description and history

Scientific publications

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References

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