Membership Department Central Park West at 79th Street New York, New York 10024-5192 amnh.org VOL. 35 NO. 2 MARCH/APRIL 2010 MEMBERS’ NEWSLETTER General Information MUSEUM SHOPS The following Museum Shops are open during HOURS regular Museum hours: Please join us for Museum: Daily, 10 am–5:45 pm The Museum Shop (first and second floors) The Museum is closed on Thanksgiving and DinoStore (fourth floor) a Members-only Christmas. The Shop for Earth & Space (Rose Center, Space Show: Every half hour, 10:30 am–4:30 pm lower level) reception for the major except on Wednesdays, when first show is at 11 am. Cosmic Shop (Rose Center, second floor) new exhibition Research Library: Tuesday–Thursday, 2–5:30 pm Silk Road Shop (third floor) Hours are subject to change. Online Shop (amnhshop.com) ENTRANCES PHONE NUMBERS During Museum hours, Members may enter Museum Information 212-769-5100 RACE TO through the subway (lower level), Central Park Membership Office 212-769-5606 West at 79th Street (second floor), the Rose Central Reservations 212-769-5200 Center/81st Street, and the Columbus Avenue AMNH Expeditions 800-462-8687 THE END OF entrances. The 77th Street entrance is open for Communications 212-769-5800 events and programs. Development 212-769-5151 TRANSPORTATION AND PARKING Education 212-769-5304 THE EARTH Subway: B (weekdays) or C to 81st Street; Event & Conference Services 212-769-5350 e 1 to 79th Street Library Services 212-769-5400 g d i 7 10 11 104 79 Museum Shop 800-671-7035 FRIDAY, MAY 28 r Bus: M ,M ,M , or M to th Street; b M79 to Central Park West Patrons Circle 212-769-5153 m a C Planetarium Information 212-769-5900 Parking Garage: Open daily, 8 am–11 pm; enter f o 81 Planned Giving Office 212-769-5119 Exhibition opens from West st Street. Members receive a y t i discounted rate of $10 if entering after 4 pm. To Volunteer Office 212-769-5566 s exclusively to members r e receive this rate, you must show your Membership Website amnh.org v i LIZARDS & SNAKES: ALIVE! Card or event ticket when exiting the garage. n at 4 pm. Reception U , For more information, call 212-313-7275. e t will be held in the u t i FOOD SERVICE t s RETURNS MARCH 6 n Museum Food Court: Daily, 11 am–4:45 pm Theodore Roosevelt I h (lower level) c r Rotunda from 6 to 8 pm. a Café on One: Daily, 11 am–4:45 pm (first floor) e s Starlight Café: Saturday and Sunday, e R Kindly RSVP r 11 am–4:45 pm (first floor) a l o Café on 4: Daily, 11 am–4:45 pm (fourth floor) P to 212-769-5606. t Hours are subject to change. t o c S © Museum Notes OPENING roads, the subject of this compelling A 2010 Celebration Lizards & Snakes: Alive! photo exhibition featuring more than In 2010 the Museum will celebrate the 35 images of cliff-side passages, 10th anniversary of the opening of Opens Saturday, March 6 suspension bridges, and other road the Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Gallery 77, first floor segments set against stunning Rose Center for Earth and Space and Members’ tickets are $12 adults, Andean landscapes. the 75th anniversary of the opening $7.50 children Courtesy of the Consulate General of Peru in New York. of the original Hayden Planetarium. Featuring more than 60 live lizards and The presentation of Highway of An Empire at the Visit amnh.org throughout the year snakes from five continents, Lizards & American Museum of Natural History is made possible for details about upcoming events. Snakes: Alive! introduces visitors to a by the generosity of the Arthur Ross Foundation. diversity of legged and legless creatures HAYDEN PLANETARIUM and showcases their remarkable adap- Alfred Russel Wallace Cabinet Discover the secrets of the Great Lakes in the new IMAX feature at the Museum. | © Gary and Joanie McGuffin tations, from projectile tongues, deadly Grand Gallery, first floor ISAAC ASIMOV Lizards and Snakes: Alive! showcases amazing reptile MEMORIAL DEBATE venom, and amazing camouflage to adaptations. | © AMNH/R. Mickens Free with Museum admission in collaboration with the California Academy of CELEBRATE A CHILD’S BIRTHDAY surprising modes of locomotion. Moon, Mars and Beyond: Sciences, San Francisco; GOTO INC, Tokyo, Japan; A Victorian rosewood cabinet that Where Next For the Papalote • Museo del Niño, Mexico City, Mexico; and AT THE MUSEUM Lizards & Snakes: Alive! is organized by the American The Butterfly Conservatory: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, houses green-jeweled beetles, extinct Manned Space Program? Linda Kaye’s Partymakers will throw Museum of Natural History, New York (www.amnh.org), Tropical Butterflies Alive in Winter Washington, D.C. moths, and more collected by the Monday, March 15 an unforgettable bash for kids ages in collaboration with the Fernbank Museum of Whitney Hall of Oceanic Birds Journey to the Stars was created by the American Natural History, Atlanta, and the San Diego Natural 19th-century naturalist and 7:30 pm Museum of Natural History, with the major support four and up. Choose from Dinosaur Members’ tickets are $12 adults, History Museum. contemporary of Charles Darwin is Members' tickets are $13.50 and partnership of NASA, Science Mission Directorate, Discoveries, Safari Adventure, Heliophysics Division. Presented with appreciation to $7.50 children now on display. Underwater Treasures, and Cosmic Clyde Peeling’s Reptiland. Director of the Hayden Planetarium Made possible through the generous sponsorship of A perennial favorite, the Butterfly Blast-Off, which includes an option to Neil deGrasse Tyson will moderate. Lockheed Martin Corporation. Conservatory lets visitors mingle with Spider Silk Textile see Journey to the Stars. Parties are an CURRENTLY ON VIEW This year’s subject: should NASA return And proudly sponsored by Accenture. up to 500 live, free-flying butterflies Grand Gallery, first floor exclusive benefit for Contributor and to the Moon or proceed to Mars? Super-computing resources provided by The Texas Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient in an enclosed habitat that replicates Free with Museum admission Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of higher-level Members. For more Pathway to the Modern World a lush, tropical environment. Made possible through the generosity of the Texas at Austin through the TeraGrid, a project of the information, visit partymakers.com or This spectacular and extremely rare Asimov family and friends. National Science Foundation. Gallery 3, third floor textile—the only one of its kind on call 212-288-7112. Free for Members Highway of An Empire: display anywhere in the world— was IMAX MOVIE COVER: The Eastern green mamba is among more The Great Inca Road This intriguing exhibition transports woven from golden-colored silk thread Samuel J. and Ethel LeFrak Theater than 60 live animals featured in Lizards and Snakes: IMAX Corridor Alive! | © AMNH/R. Mickens visitors to one of the greatest trading produced by one million spiders in Members' tickets are $12 adults, Free with Museum admission routes of all time, showcasing the Madagascar. The contemporary textile $7.50 children goods, technologies, and cultures The Inca Empire owed its reach and took four years to make using a SAVE A TREE painstaking technique developed Mysteries of the Great Lakes The current issue of Rotunda is now available from four representative cities: Xi’an, power to an extensive network of online! Download it at amnh.org. If you’d China’s Tang Dynasty capital;Turfan, more than 100 years ago. Deep blue and beautiful, these five like to stop receiving paper copies, please email [email protected]. a verdant oasis; Samarkand, home of freshwater lakes hold the key to prosperous merchants; and ancient untold stories—and strange Baghdad, a hub of commerce and phenomena—explored in this scholarship. Live performances exquisite giant-screen film. To watch organized by the Silk Road Project take the trailer, visit amnh.org. ISSN 0194-6110 place in the exhibition every Sunday Stars are forming in stellar nurseries in the Orion USPS Permit #472-650 For showtimes, visit amnh.org or Vol. 35, No. 2, March/April 2010 afternoon. Visit amnh.org/silkroad for Nebula. | © AMNH call 212-769-5100. Lewis W. Bernard, Chairman more information. Ellen V. Futter, President Traveling the Silk Road is organized by the American SPACE SHOW Lisa J. Gugenheim, Senior Vice President of Museum of Natural History, New York (www.amnh.org), MORE FOR KIDS Institutional Advancement, Strategic Planning, Journey to the Stars and Education in collaboration with Azienda Speciale Palaexpo, Roma, Louise Adler, Director of Membership Italy and Codice. Idée per la cultura srl, Torino, Italy; the Members’ tickets are $12 adults, Sleepover Program National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australia and $7.50 children A Night at the Museum Rotunda is published bimonthly,except for a combined Art Exhibitions Australia; the Museum of Science, Please visit amnh.org/sleepovers for issue in July/August/September and a single issue in Taichung, Taiwan and United Daily News, Taipei,Taiwan. This spectacular Space Show sends December,by the Membership Office of the American more details. Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at The Presenting Sponsor of Traveling the Silk Road is visitors through time and space to 79th Street, New York,NY 10024-5192. MetLife Foundation. experience the life cycle of the stars. This after-hours extravaganza thrills Phone: 212-769-5606.Web address: amnh.org. Additional support has been provided by Museum Membership of $70 per year and higher Produced by the American Museum of Natural Museum fans ages 7 to 13. 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