Kingdom Under Glass

Ticket Info

$12 Members; $15 non-members ($13.50 students and seniors)

Jay Kirk was 9 the first time he visited the lifelike dioramas in the Hall of African Mammals.  Kirk is back at the Museum, as the author of Kingdom Under Glass: A Tale of Obsession, Adventure, and One Man's Quest to Preserve the World's Great Animals, a sweeping historical narrative of the life of Carl Akeley, the famed explorer and taxidermist who created the Hall of African Mammals.  In this vivid tale of art, science, courage and romance, Jay Kirk illuminates a fateful turning point when Americans realized that they had to figure out a way to preserve nature and its inhabitants.