Synthetic Amber with Trapped Insect from Jurassic Park
date: label: date made
content: 1993
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Prop amber used in the 1993 film Jurassic Park. In the film, scientist and entrepreneurs open a wildlife theme park and preserve and use cutting edge genetics to breed and grow dinosaurs, which escape and cause havoc in the park. The ancient mosquito encased in amber and the dinosaur blood the mosquito would have sucked on, became an early source of DNA that is spliced and cloned to eventually breed a real dinosaur.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Although fictional, the film brought to life the rapid advances of genetic sciences but also stoked the publics fear of what this new science, if kept unchecked, would have on the world.
topic: label: Subject
content: Motion Pictures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
label: Exhibition
content: Entertainment Nation
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of MCA, Universal City Studios, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0428.01
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0428.01
label: accession number
content: 1993.0428
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Synthetic Amber
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: resin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plaster (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: resin, plastic, paint, plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: molded (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: geoligcal (overall shape)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 5.1 cm x 7.6 cm x 14.6 cm; 2 in x 3 in x 5 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/4 in x 3 in x 2 in; 14.605 cm x 7.62 cm x 5.08 cm