natural history

‘The Lost Museum’ At Brown

A curious installation over at Brown University reifies the collection of a forgotten naturalist. A group of students, professors, and artists calling themselves “The Jenks Society for Lost Museums” has spent the past year researching the Jenks Museum, re-collecting scattered relics and remnants, and transforming words into rooms and fragments of curatorial description into spectral […]

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Crypt Tours At Museum Of Natural History

(10.27,28) The Museum of Natural History has some special events scheduled for this weekend. In addition to spooky stories, creature features, mystery guests and a trick-or-treat bag full of Halloween fun, visitors can take haunted museum vault tours (additional admission applies, children under 4 not admitted). According to the ProJo, Only 2 percent of the

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‘Curioser’ Opens At Museum Of Natural History

Today is Museum Community Day (11am to 3pm) at the Museum of Natural History at Roger Williams Park, as well as the opening of the art-meets-nature exhibit ‘Curioser.’ For the second year running, Providence’s Museum of Natural History has invited a group of contemporary artists to create new works drawing from over 250,000 rarely-seen items

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