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Posted Fri, 03/24/2023 - 3:09pm

Adventuring with Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi

Ella Al-Shamahi is a paleoanthropologist, a television personality, an intrepid explorer, and even a stand-up comic. What’s more, she’s everything you want your daughter to be when she grows up: successful, fearless, well-spoken, intelligent, and a delight to be around. Born of Yemeni parents in England, she’s much more than a modern-day female Indiana Jones – she’s helping to change assumptions about who scientists and archaeologists are.

Tags: celebrating women in science, Ella Al-Shamahi, lecture series

Posted Tue, 03/21/2023 - 10:08am

NHMU Educators Reach Into Utah Classrooms

NHMU is more than a destination museum housing incredible collections; it is a serious education partner with Utah schools

Tags: celebrating women in science

Posted Sat, 03/11/2023 - 12:00pm

A Historical Perspective on the Science of Chocolate

Read into the history and science that resulted in the amazing flavors of chocolate we enjoy today at NHMU's Chocolate & Cheese Festival, happening March 11-12, 2023, at NHMU.

Tags: chocolate

Posted Wed, 03/01/2023 - 3:09pm

Looking Beyond the Temples at the People of Angkor – with Alison Carter, PhD

Angkor is an archaeologist’s dream, and a few of them are looking beyond the temples that draw 2.5 million tourists a year to better understand the people who lived and worked there. One of these archaeologists is Alison Carter, PhD.

Tags: lecture series, Alison Carter, anthropology, archaeology, celebrating women in science

Posted Tue, 02/07/2023 - 3:27pm

Writer and Sleuth Jason Felch Pieces Together the Antiquities Black Market

Starting in 2005, investigative reporter Jason Felch helped to break open a sordid tale of antiquities curators, shady middlemen, and modern looted artifacts in museums across the USA. Over the next seven years, Felch and his co-authors published nearly 40 articles in the LA Times, many of them front page stories. The tale was so complex that it took a book, Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World’s Richest Museum, to lay out the full scope of the decades-long saga.

Tags: lecture series, Jason Felch

Posted Thu, 01/26/2023 - 9:42am

Bringing Dinosaurs to Life Requires a Paleontological Dream Team

A closer look at the various stages of taking a dinosaur discovery from "Bones to Beasts."

Tags: paleontology, DinoFest, volunteers

Posted Fri, 01/13/2023 - 10:57am

Using Skin Impressions and Feathers to Bring Dinosaurs to Life

When it comes to reanimating dinosaurs from even the smallest collections of fossils, paleoartists play a crucial role.

Tags: paleontology, paleoart, paleoartist, DinoFest

Posted Mon, 12/19/2022 - 6:03pm

Remembering a Revolutionary Artist

Many are grieving the passing of Mary Holiday Black, a basket weaver of the Navajo Nation. Mary learned to weave ceremonial Navajo baskets at an early age and went on to revolutionize the art form with her work.

Tags: ethnography, anthropology, Navajo Basket Explorer, weaving, Navajo Baskets

Posted Thu, 12/08/2022 - 3:25pm

Honoring Legacy and Future of NHMU

On the evening of Tuesday, November 29, 2022, the Natural History Museum of Utah honored its former executive director, Dr. Sarah B. George, and featured a surprise announcement by the president of the University of Utah, Dr. Taylor Randall.

Tags: Rio Tinto Center, Sarah George, celebrating women in science

Posted Wed, 10/05/2022 - 1:37pm

New Native Voices Enrich the Collections

From the first plans of our museum’s space, especially the Native Voices exhibit on the top floor, we have worked to include more than just objects from Native cultures in our region. Their perspectives, history, and actual voices are an important way to more fully present their culture to the wide museum audience.

Tags: ethnography, anthropology, celebrating women in science

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