From Bone Wars to Jurassic Park: Education, Outreach, and Research in a University Natural History Museum
Item
Title
From Bone Wars to Jurassic Park: Education, Outreach, and Research in a University Natural History Museum
Description
The goal of this 24-month project is to carry out cataloging of: (a) the archives of Yale paleontologists Richard Swann Lull, Charles Schuchert, and John Ostrom; (b) the artist Rudolph Zallinger; and (c) the archives of the Yale Peabody Museum's Education Department. Collectively, the materials will offer new insight on the role of paleontology as a vehicle for the public understanding of evolution that took place both within and beyond the Museum over the course of the 20th Century, encompassing three critical periods to our understanding of the natural world: the "Eclipse of Darwinisim" the "Neodarwinian Synthesis" and the "Dinosaur Renaissance.â€
Program
Date
Temporal Coverage
1904 - 1904
Spatial Coverage
The project is primarily focused on North America, although the papers are global in scope
Extent
50 Artifact (Including Archaeological Objects, Weapons, Machinery, Instruments, Costumes, Textiles, Ceramics, Glass, Furniture, Etc.), Artwork (Including Original Paintings, Prints, Sculpture, Etc.), Audio (Including Speech And Music), Audiovisual, Book (Including Serials), Dataset (Paper Based Or Electronic), Ephemera, Image, Manuscript, Maps, Text (Including Electronic Texts)
Institution
Applicant Unit
Identifier
PI2 Institution
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
PI2 Name
Dr. Christopher Norris
Primary Contact
Mr. Tim White
Request
$361,620