Follow Mark Norell, Chair and Curator-in-Charge of Paleontology at AMNH, as he gives an insightful tour of Silk Road, traveling from Xi’an, the capital of China’s Tang Dynasty; Turfan, a verdant oasis and trading outpost; Samarkand, a center for prosperous merchants who thrived on the caravan trade; and Baghdad, a cosmopolitan hub of commerce and scholarship that flourished as a leading intellectual center of the time.
Watch as Hazel Davies, AMNH’s Manger of Living Exhibits, and Whitney Doreen Ortiz walk through the vivarium and interact with butterflies from around the world — blue morphos, striking scarlet swallowtails and large owl butterflies.
A spectacular and extremely rare textile, woven from golden-colored silk thread produced by more than one million spiders in Madagascar is now on display at the American Museum of Natural History in the Grand Gallery.
Drawing on the legacy of a French missionary, Jacob Paul Camboué, this contemporary textile measures 11 feet by 4 feet and took four years to make using a painstaking technique.
Hear from Dr. Ian Tattersall, Curator, Division of Anthropology at AMNH, as well as Nicholas Godley, co-creator and owner of the silk along with his partner Simon Peers as they discuss this rare work.
From the trees of Australia and New Guinea to the halls of the American Museum of Natural History, a colony of sugar gliders (petaurus breviceps) are now living in the new Extreme Mammals exhibit. Watch as Hazel Davies, manager of living exhibits at AMNH, readies these nocturnal creatures for their day.
Learn more about these unique marsupials, along with a variety of other interesting mammals, at the Museum’s Extreme Mammals exhibit.
