TITLE

Whole Worlds to Order

AUTHOR(S)

Small, Lawrence M.

PUB. DATE

June 2000

SOURCE

Smithsonian;Jun2000, Vol. 31 Issue 3, p10

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Focuses on the reconstruction of an African landscape by the Smithsonian's Office of Exhibits Central (OEC) at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. How children were compelled to touch the exhibit; Stages of development museum exhibits go through before completion; The OEC's plan to construct a mini-diorama of the prehistoric seafloor.

ACCESSION #

3125308

Tags: NATIONAL Museum of Natural History (U.S.);  EXHIBITIONS;  HISTORICAL museums;  SMITHSONIAN Institution (Washington, D.C.)

 

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