page_title: AMNH Exhibitions Lab
section_title: Notable shows
hierarchical_section_title: AMNH Exhibitions Lab / Notable shows
caption_attribution_description: The blue whale is the largest animal that ever lived; the largest specimen verified was at 30 meters (100 feet), and the average blue whale can easily weigh 400,000 pounds (or 24 African elephants). As blue whales live solitary lives in the open ocean, people still know very little about them. This model of a blue whale is the centerpiece of the Marine Life Hall. The lighting here is very dim - only a long exposure, with the camera steadied on the handrails, could come up with this shot, even though I couldn't do much about the mother and daughter in the foreground. American Museum of Natural History is the largest museum of its kind, and alongside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, represents the ultimate in New York City museum experience.
context_page_description: The AMNH Exhibitions Lab or AMNH Department of Exhibition is an interdisciplinary art and research team at the American Museum of Natural History that designs and produces museum installations, computer programs and film. Founded in 1869, the lab has since produced thousands of installations, many of which have become celebrated works. The department is notable for its integration of new scientific research into immersive art and multimedia presentations. In addition to the famous dioramas at its home museum and the Rose Center for Earth and Space, the lab has also produced international exhibitions and software such as the revolutionary Digital Universe Atlas.
  The exhibitions team currently consists of over sixty artists, writers, preparators, designers and programmers. The department is responsible for the creation of two to three exhibits per year, making the AMNH one of the most extensive exhibition creators in the world. These extensive shows typically travel nationally to sister natural history museums.
context_section_description: The following is a partial list of the shows produced by the department. 
  2013 – "The Power of Poison"
  2012 – "The Global Kitchen", "Creatures of Light: Nature's Bioluminescence"
  2011 – "Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Travel", "The World's Largest Dinosaurs"
  2010 – "Brain: The Inside Story", "Extreme Mammals", "Race to the End of the Earth"
  2009 – "Traveling the Silk Road", "Horse"
  2008 – "Climate Change: The Threat to Life and a New Energy Future", "Mythic Creatures"
  2007 – "Water: H²0 = Life", "Lizards and Snakes: Alive!"
  2006 – "Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins" (Redesign)
  2005 – "Darwin", "Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries"
  2004 – "Totems to Turquoise", "Petra", "Exploratorium/AMNH" (designed with Exploratorium, San Francisco)
  2003 – "Chocolate" (designed with The Field Museum, Chicago), "Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind and Spirit", "The First Europeans: Treasures from the Hills of Atapuerca", "Milstein Hall of Ocean Life" (Redesign)
  2002 – "Baseball as America", "Einstein"
  2001 – "Pearls", "Meeting God: Elements of Hindu Devotion", "The Genomic Revolution"
  2000 – "Fighting Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries", "Vikings: The North Atlantic"
  1999 – "Epidemic: The World of Infectious Disease", "The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition"
caption: The museum's iconic blue whale was completed by the lab in 2003.
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