Upcoming Schedule

June 7, 2012 
Show and Tell
Our fourth Wish List Event. Museum staff members describe the results derived from Wish List request funding.

September 20, 2012 
The importance and relevancy of genetic diversity in plants, Cynthia Morton, PhD, Botany

October 11, 2012 
Keeping it Together, Gretchen Anderson, Conservator
Describing the role of a museum conservator

November 1, 2012 
Social Critters, John Wenzel, PhD, Center for Biodiversity and Ecosystems
Hear about recent fascinating advances that reveal surprising insights into the organization of labor in social insects, including ants, bees, and wasps.

December 6, 2012 
From South Africa to Oakland, John Wible, PhD, Mammals
The fascinating tale of the journey of a Bontebok antelope, a gift to the museum

Previous Events

May 3, 2012 
Field Trip, Sandra Olsen, PhD, Center for World Cultures; Gretchen Anderson, Conservator
Visit the museum’s annex where natural history treasures and treats are studied and stored.

April 19, 2012 
A Century of Carnegie Bug Discovery, John Rawlins, PhD, Bugs
No room for the squeamish here—just the reality of serious bug hunting from the 1890s to the present. Learn about collecting from the heights of the Ecuadorean Andes to below sea level in the Dominican Republic.

February 23, 2012 
Zhe-Xi Luo, PhD, former Associate Director of Research & Collections
Meet our "Jurassic mother from China," the earliest known placental mammal. Most of the living mammal species of the world are either placentals or marsupials and all can be traced back to a humble beginning in the Mesozoic.

February 9, 2012 
Exploration Basecamp: how the “back” of the museum comes to the “front” of the museum. Mary Ann Steiner, Public Programs; Kevin Crowley, Learning Sciences and Policy, University of Pittsburgh; Patrick McShea, Public Programs; Kaleen Povis, Learning Sciences and Policy, University of Pittsburgh

October 20, 2011 
Museum Exhibition Consultant Beth Redmond-Jones informed us about M is for Museum from concept to completion, an exciting new rotating exhibition of specimens and artifacts from the museum's collections. M is for Museum opened on October 15.

December 1, 2011
Annual Holiday Event: Behind-the-scenes tour of the model railroad exhibit at Carnegie Science Center.

September 15, 2011
The Discoverers learned how important the talents and efforts of the museum’s artists and illustrators—Paul Bowden, Jane Hyland, and award-winning Mark Klingler—are to the museum, and how their work helps us better understand the world around us.

June 2011
In the annual Scientific Staff Show and Tell, the lucky scientific and education staff recipients of Carnegie Discoverers Wish List funding told us what they did with their awards.

April 21, 2011
When Seals Had Feet, 20 Million Years Ago
Natalia Rybczynski, Research Associate from the Canadian Museum of Nature, and the museum's Curator Emeritus of Vertebrate Paleontology Mary Dawson tell us about their discovery of a Darwinian “missing link” in the wilds of northern Canada. 

March 31, 2011
Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology Chris Beard discusses his research on the concept that primates—including humans—may have evolved not in Africa, as was long thought, but in Asia. Controversial stuff, but the Discoverers have always been on the cutting edge of science.

February 24, 2011
Associate Curator of Mollusks Tim Pearce tells us everything you always wanted to know about the "shell game"—mollusks, that is. Plus, enjoy the rare opportunity to tour the collection’s inner sanctum.

December 9, 2010
Collection Manager and Head of Section Marc Wilson shares how the staff of the Section of Minerals has built one of the world's finest collections of gems and minerals.

October 16, 2010
Invertebrate Zoology Collection Manager Albert Kollar and Adjunct Associate Curator David Brezinski, PhD, lead a geological field trip to a Moon Township. Learn all about the land beneath your feet.

September 23, 2010
2009 Wish List Grant Recipients Show and Tell

May 23, 2010
Curator-led tour of Botanicals: Environmental Expressions in Art, the Alisa and Isaac M. Sutton Collection at Hunt Botanic Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

April 22, 2010
Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology Matt Lamanna, PhD, shares his fossil hunting experiences in Paleontology in Antarctica, or Fossil Finding in the Deep, Deep, Deep South.

March 25, 2010
Listen to Tales from the Frontier: The Adventures of Post-Soviet Fieldwork in Kazakhstanwith Curator of Anthropology Sandra Olsen, PhD, and find out about the trials, tribulations, and rewards of an extended field expedition.

February 4, 2010
Learn about exhibition development from concept to completion with Beth Redmond-Jones, consultant for Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s newest permanent exhibition, Population Impact.

December 10, 2009
The History of and the Story behind the Arab Courier Attacked by Lions Diorama

October 1, 2009
A Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the Buhl Digital Dome at Carnegie Science Center

June 25, 2009
2008 Wish List Grant Recipients Show and Tell

April 23, 2009
Strategic Planning with Director Sam Taylor

January 29, 2009
Tours of the Alcohol House, Bird Collection, and Hall of African Wildlife with Curator of Birds Bradley Livezey, PhD, Collection Manager of Mammals Suzanne McLaren, and Collection Manager of Amphibians and Reptiles Stephen Rogers

December 8, 2008
Neopolitan presepio with Rachel Delphia, Assistant Curator of Art at Carnegie Museum of Art, and Sam Taylor, Director of Carnegie Museum of Natural History

September 27, 2008
Powdermill Nature Reserve Trip

June 13, 2008
T. rex Returns

June 2, 2008
Meet Sam Taylor, Director, Carnegie Museum of Natural History

February 28, 2008
“Show and Tell” with Curators and Collection Managers

November 27, 2007
Tour of Wertz Gallery: Gems & Jewelry with Marc Wilson, Head of Section of Minerals

August 1, 2007
Secret sites of Carnegie Museum of Natural History with Molly’s Trolley

June 2, 2007
Tour of ¡CARNAVAL!

Images

Top: Red-bellied woodpecker, illustration by Mark A. KIingler for Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City, 2007
Below: Collection Manager of Mammals Suzanne McLaren with Carnegie Discoverer Harmon Ziegler at a behind-the-scenes event.