What about the Museum of Natural History in NYC?

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> On Mar 29, 2014, at 7:08 PM, Charles Sturm <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> The Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, PA has a small
> exhibit of mollusks.
>
> When I visited Atlanta several years ago, I visited the Fernbank Museum of
> Natural History. There was a small exhibit of mollusks on display.
>
>
>> Does anyone have a comprehensive list of museums and parks with shell
>> exhibits?
>>
>> I know of Bailey-Matthews on Sanibel, for sure. And there is the Brevard
>> Museum of Natural History with its excellent Johnson Cordy Hall of
>> Mollusks.
>>
>> But what about other parts of the country? I've been teaching after school
>> science classes and I don't even know where to send my students. Yale's
>> Peabody here in New Haven used to have an excellent shell exhibit, back
>> about FORTY FIVE YEARS AGO! So the kids have not seen very many shells.
>>
>> When they have been exposed to nature, it's more likely to have been on
>> the
>> Discovery Channel than IRL.
>>
>> In New Haven, at least, we have beaches. Okay, maybe not Florida beaches.
>> The water is cold and murky (I was going to say polluted, but no more than
>> Florida, really.) and dark. But there are beaches and tides and life and
>> wrack lines. Still, the kids don't even think to poke through them. And I
>> reckon they need a jumpstart and an exhibit can do that. I hand out take
>> home materials and it would be great to have a list of shell-exhibit
>> destinations for the parents to bear in mind for summer vacation. I would
>> also like to include it on the Astronaut Shell Club Blog that we are
>> putting together astronauttrailshellclub.blogspot.co m
>>
>> In the meantime, we need to make do with what we got. If I was in Florida,
>> I could take them to a warm beach with white sand. I could take them to
>> Sanibel or to the Brevard Museum (and tomorrow, at Brevard, I wouldn't
>> even
>> have to pay because it's the open house).
>>
>> Anyway, I'm working on making new converts to our hobby. My kids can tell
>> a
>> bivalve from a gastropod and my personal supply of spare shells has been
>> doled out. I dump out a BIG piles of shells and tell the kiddies, if you
>> can ID* it, you can take it home. Great motivator!
>>
>> Man oh man, they love those sunrise tellins!
>>
>> * and by ID, I mean even come up with a reasonable wild guess...
>
>
> Regards,
> Charlie
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> Charlie Sturm
>
> Treasurer
> American Malacological Society
>
> Research Associate - Section of Mollusks
> Carnegie Museum of Natural History
> Pittsburgh, PA, USA
>
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> Fellow-American Academy of Family Practice
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