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Membership Department Central Park West at 79th Street New York, New York 10024-5192 www.amnh.org VOL. 34 NO. 4 JULY/AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2009 MEMBERS’ NEWSLETTER PLACE SOY & FSC LOGOS HERE General Information MUSEUM SHOPS The following Museum Shops are open during HOURS # regular Museum hours: Museum: Daily, 10 am–5:45 pm Main Shop (first and second floors) / The Museum is closed Thanksgiving and Dinostore (fourth floor) Christmas. Extreme Mammals Shop (fourth floor) JOURNEY Space Show: Every half hour, 10:30 am–4:30 pm Frogs Shop (first floor) Research Library: Tuesday–Thursday, 2–5:30 pm Planetarium Shop (Rose Center, lower level) Hours are subject to change. TO THE STARS Cosmic Shop (Rose Center, second floor) ENTRANCES Online Shop (www.amnhshop.com) An All-New Space Show During Museum hours, visitors may enter through PHONE NUMBERS the subway (lower level), Central Park West at 79th Opening July 4, 2009 Museum Information 212-769-5100 Street (second floor), and the Rose Center/81st Membership Office 212-769-5606 Street entrances. The Columbus Avenue entrance Central Reservations 212-769-5200 is open on weekends and holidays. The 77th Street Journey to the Stars, AMNH Expeditions 212-769-5700 entrance is closed until further notice. Communications 212-769-5800 the spectacular new Space Show, TRANSPORTATION AND PARKING Development 212-769-5151 Subway: B (weekdays) or C to 81st Street; Education 212-769-5304 launches visitors through 1 to 79th Street Event & Conference Services 212-769-5350 time and space to experience Bus: M7,M10,M11, or M104 to 79th Street; Library Services 212-769-5400 M79 to Central Park West Member Birthday Parties 212-769-5606 the life and death of the stars Parking Garage: Open daily, 8 am–11 pm; enter Museum Shop 800-671-7035 from West 81st Street. Members receive a Natural History Magazine 646-356-6500 in our night sky—from the discounted rate of $10 if entering after 4 pm. To Patrons Circle 212-769-5153 birth of the first stars to receive this rate, you must show your Membership Planetarium Information 212-769-5900 Card or event ticket when exiting the garage. Planned Giving Office 212-769-5119 the future transformation For more information, call 212-313-7275. 212-769-5566 Volunteer Office of our Sun. FOOD SERVICE Website www.amnh.org Museum Food Court: Daily, 11 am–4:45 pm Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg. (lower level) Café on 1: Daily, 11 am–4:45 pm (first floor) Starlight Café: Saturday and Sunday, # 11 am–4:45 pm (first floor) Café on 4: Saturday and Sunday, 11 am–4:45 pm (fourth floor) Hours are subject to change. / Museum Notes CURRENTLY ON VIEW The presentation of both Saturn and On Feathered Sciences, San Francisco; GOTO INC, Tokyo, Japan; Wings at the American Museum of Natural History Papalote • Museo del Niño, Mexico City, Mexico and Extreme Mammals: The Biggest, is made possible by the generosity of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Smallest, and Most Amazing Arthur Ross Foundation. Washington, D.C. Mammals of All Time Journey to the Stars was created by the American SLEEPOVER PROGRAM Museum of Natural History, with the major support Through January 3, 2010 and partnership of NASA, Science Mission Directorate, Gallery 4 A Night at the Museum Heliophysics Division. Free for Members Call 212-769-5200, Monday–Friday, Made possible through the generous sponsorship of Lockheed Martin Corporation. Explore the surprising and sometimes 9 am–5 pm journey that will make this party And proudly sponsored by Accenture. bizarre world of extinct and living $119 per person for Members one to cherish! Super-computing resources provided by The Texas mammals. This exhibition examines After-hours at the Museum: as the Advance Computing Center (TACC) at the University For ages 4 and up. Available every of Texas at Austin. the ancestry and evolution of an doors close and the lights dim, day to Contributor and higher-level astonishing range of mammal adventurers head out on flashlight Museum Members only. species, showcasing such “extreme” tours before bedding down IMAX MOVIES For details and to request a date, adaptations as oversized claws and surrounded by Museum icons. Samuel J. and Ethel LeFrak Theater visit www.partymakers.com or call fangs, jaw-dropping speed, and For films and showtimes, visit 212-288-7112. massive–or miniscule–body size. HAYDEN PLANETARIUM SHOWS www.amnh.org or call 212-769-5100. Extreme Mammals will also Journey To The Stars investigate how some lineages died Wild Ocean COVER: Students present their projects for Urban out, while others diversified to form Opens July 4, 2009 Advantage 2008. | © AMNH/R. Mickens groups of well-known mammals Waxy Monkey Frog | © AMNH/H. Davies Journey to the Stars, a spectacular new Experience the massive feeding frenzy living today. With fascinating Space Show, launches visitors through that takes place each year in the oceans of South Africa as billions of specimens, spectacular models, León, Spain; Korea Green Foundation, Seoul; Natural invite visitors to activate recorded time and space to experience the life RELOCATION OF ROSE CENTER History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen; Papalote fish migrate up the KwaZulu-Natal dynamic media displays, and hands- frog calls, view videos of frogs in and death of the stars in our night sky. MEMBERSHIP DESK Museo del Niño, Mexico City, Mexico; and Saint Louis Wild Coast. Breaching whales, on activities, the exhibition highlights action, and test their knowledge Travel 13 billion years into the past, Science Center. frenzied sharks, herding dolphins, and The Membership Desk at the mammals’ amazing qualities and Climate Change is proudly presented by about frogs. when the first stars were born, and diving gannets compete in an epic Rose Center Entrance (81st Street) illuminates the shared ancestry that Bank of America. witness brilliant supernovas that sent This exhibition is presented with appreciation to Clyde underwater struggle for survival. is now located on the first floor, unites these diverse creatures. Major support has also been provided by Peeling’s Reptiland. new kinds of matter coursing through directly to your right The Rockefeller Foundation. the universe, into the atoms of our Extreme Mammals is organized by the American as you enter the building. Museum of Natural History, New York (www.amnh.org), Additional support for Climate Change and its related Saturn: Images from the own bodies and the air we breathe. Beavers in collaboration with the California Academy of Sciences, educational programming has been provided by San Francisco; Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Mary and David Solomon, the Betsy and Jesse Fink Cassini-Huygens Mission Visit the heart of our fiery Sun, and Shot on location in the Canadian Rocky Canada; and Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Foundation, the Linden Trust for Conservation, and Through July 26, 2009 glimpse its distant future as it trans- Mountains and Ontario, Canada, this SAVE A TREE the Red Crane Foundation. Major funding for Extreme Mammals has been provided IMAX Corridor forms into a massive red giant. Tour fascinating film follows one family as The current issue of Rotunda is now available online! Download it at www.amnh.org. If you’d by the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund. familiar stellar formations, explore This stunning exhibition reveals it overcomes dangers, grows, plays like to stop receiving paper copies, please Additional generous support for Extreme Mammals has Frogs: A Chorus of Colors new celestial mysteries, and discover email [email protected]. details of Saturn’s rings, moons, and and proves why the beaver is one of been provided by the Bill and Ann Ziff Foundation, the Through January 3, 2010 the fascinating, unfolding story that nature’s great engineers. With breath- Eileen P.Bernard Exhibition Fund, and Harlan B. Levine, Gallery 77 atmosphere with images sent over MD and Marshall P.Levine. connects us all to the stars. taking underwater photography, Members’ tickets are $12 adults; half a billion miles by the Cassini spacecraft. Journey to the Stars was developed by the American viewers also travel inside the lodge for $7 children Museum of Natural History, New York (www.amnh.org) Climate Change: The Threat to a rare, intimate look at the habitat of ISSN 0194-6110 The support of the National Aeronautics and in collaboration with the California Academy of USPS Permit #472-650 Life and A New Energy Future With more than 200 live frogs shown Space Administration is appreciated. these charming, industrious creatures. Vol. 34, No. 4, July/August/September 2009 Through August 16, 2009 in recreated habitats, complete with Special thanks to the Cassini imaging team, especially Lewis W. Bernard, Chairman Gallery 3 rock ledges, live plants, and waterfalls, those scientists at Cornell University’s Department of AND DON’T MISS… Ellen V. Futter, President Free for Members this delightful exhibition introduces Astronomy, along with the staff of Cornell University AMNH Birthday Parties Lynn DeBow, Senior Vice President for Development visitors to the colorful and diverse photography.The Eastman Kodak Company of and Membership This timely exhibition explores the Rochester, New York, printed the images. Rosemary Caulk, Director of Membership world of amphibians. Featuring Celebrate this year’s birthday at the science, history, and impact of climate American Museum of Natural History! Rotunda is published bimonthly, except for a combined change on a global scale, providing a approximately 25 species from around On Feathered Wings issue in July/August/September and a single issue in With four exciting party themes: December, by the Membership Office of the American the world, the exhibition explores Through August 30, 2009 context for today’s most urgent Dinosaur Discoveries, Cosmic Blast- Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at headlines.