In this post, the fifth in a series, we explore a video-series now on amnh.tv and on the Museum's YouTube channel, about the making of the earliest habitat dioramas—whose vivid realism was meant to inspire environmental awareness.

Museum Curator Mark E. Siddall joins former U.S. President Jimmy Carter as he announces the 2012 provisional Guinea worm case numbers during a LIVE broadcast via Google+ Hangout at 10:45 am EST this Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. 

National Geographic explorer Tierney Thys divides her time between research on the giant ocean sunfish and making science education films. In this podcast, join Ms. Thys in a discussion about how science and art can be used to promote the ocean conservation movement.

The restored Theodore Roosevelt Memorial is now open, and a new self-guided tour—available as part of the Museum's Explorer app, or on our website—highlights exhibits and places around the Museum with a connection to TR, who was President from 1901 to 1909. In this post, the seventh in a series, we visit the American bison and pronghorn diorama, in the renovated Jill and Lewis Bernard Family Hall of North American Mmmals. 

Opening Saturday, March 23, a special exhibition, Whales: Giants of the Deep, will bring Museum visitors closer than ever to some of the mightiest, most massive, and mysterious mammals on Earth.