A New Definition Of Frostbite: Happenings This Week At HMNS
Frozen (2013) GET TICKETS August 31 When the newly-crowned Queen Elsa accidentally uses her power to turn things into ice to curse her home in infinite winter, her sister Anna teams up with a...
View ArticleBack to the Future With Do It Yourself Photography
We are a culture obsessed with photography. We are constantly documenting the ins-and-outs of our day-to-day lives with the help of our ever present Smartphones. What once was an expensive and...
View ArticleMammoth Gardens Of Death: This Weeks Happenings At HMNS
Behind The Scenes Tour Of Out Hall Of Paleontology: The Reign of Mammals: Giants of the Pleistocene Because the Morian Hall of Paleontology is too large to tour in one evening, we are debuting a new...
View ArticleWhat The Loss Of The Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro’s Collections Means To...
The evening of Sunday, September 2, 2018 marked the loss of one of the world’s largest natural history collections. A fire destroyed the Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro, and with the building, a...
View ArticleSkeletons, Citrus and Science! This Week’s Happenings At HMNS
Lecture – Beauty and Morphology of Insects by Erin Mills Characteristics and adaptations of these unique and misunderstood creatures will be explored by Erin Mills, Director of the Cockrell Butterfly...
View ArticleDinosaurs, Aliens And Volcanoes: This Week’s Happenings At HMNS
Lecture – New Technology in Fossil Prep by David Temple Recent advances in fossil preparation have led scientists to uncover incredible detail in fossils that until now where not thought possible....
View ArticleRockets, Robots And Romance: This Week’s Happenings At HMNS
Lecture – How to Walk on Water & Climb up Walls: Animal Movement & Robots of the Future by David Hu Animals have adapted and evolved to traverse their environments, taking advantage of physical...
View ArticleA Few Member Benefits Most HMNS Members Don’t Know About
By Kimberly Vera, Membership Copywriter Becoming an HMNS member has many benefits —some, you might not be aware of, so join me as I take a closer look at a few and highlight my personal...
View ArticlePixel Party Recap: An Artist’s Perspective on the Wiess Energy Hall
HMNS Pixel Parties are small, informal after hours gatherings of professional photographers held at our main campus quarterly. Each party is hosted in a different exhibit and during the two hour event...
View ArticleWhat Do Dino’s Dream of Doing in 2019?
Congratulations everyone! We’ve almost made it through the second decade of the (still) new millennium. It’s been tough at times but at least our species isn’t extinct yet, and as someone who works at...
View ArticleWant To Start A Museum career? Here’s How To Do it.
By Jayme Schlimper, Overnight Program Manager and Curator of Education Collections Hi! I’m Jayme and I don’t come here (the blog) often, but I’m psyched to be here. I wanted to talk about some awesome...
View ArticleA Peek Inside HMNS’ Secret Education Collections
By Jayme Schlimper, Overnight Program Manager and Curator of Education Collections Hello! Today I want to let you in on a secret. Hidden in the museum is a magical room full of everything you could...
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