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Open House weekend scheduled at UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History (full press release note: opens in a new browser window)
Celebrate grads and dads with free admission all weekend
EUGENE, Ore. -- (May 30, 2008) -- Explore the Museum of Natural and Cultural History, located at 1680 E. 15th Ave., for free during UO graduation weekend, June 13-15, 2008. With three exhibits on display and a hands-on science room, the museum offers something for visitors of all ages.
Shoes reveal cultural stories at UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History (full press release note: opens in a new browser window)
Exhibit opens on Friday, April 11, 2008 with a “Kick Up Your Heels” reception
EUGENE, Ore. -- (March 14, 2008) – ‘Walk A Mile In These Shoes-The Stories They Tell,’ a new exhibit at the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History, is a hands-on, feet-in experience that invites visitors to discover the heart and ‘sole’ of footwear.
Researchers, led by UO archaeologist, find pre-Clovis human DNA (full press release note: opens in a new browser window)
EUGENE, Ore. -- (April 3, 2008) -- Human DNA from dried excrement recovered from Oregon's Paisley Caves is the oldest found yet in the New World -- dating to 14,300 years ago, some 1,200 years before Clovis culture -- and provides apparent genetic ties to Siberia or Asia, according to an international team of 13 scientists.
Among the researchers is Dennis L. Jenkins, a senior archaeologist with the University of Oregon’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History, whose field expeditions over two summers uncovered a variety of artifacts in caves that had caught the scientific attention of the UO’s Luther Cressman in the 1930s.
'Cultural Horizons' photo exhibit of global landscapes to open at UO March 7 (full press release note: opens in a new browser window)
EUGENE, Ore. -- (Feb. 24, 2008) -- Cultural Horizons, an exhibit of stunning color photographs that depict areas as diverse as the American Arctic, the forests of Borneo and the Tibetan Plateau, will open at the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History on March 7.
An opening reception will begin at 5:30 p.m., Friday, March 14, at the museum, 1680 E. 15th Ave. The free event will include a slide presentation and an opportunity to talk with photographer Dennis Griffin. Griffin, who also is an archaeologist for the state of Oregon, hopes that his photos will help preserve the integrity of the places he has photographed--places that are being impacted by the growth of cultural tourism.
Twenty-six color photographs from 11 countries will be on display -- from the highlands of Guatemala to the American Arctic, from the Tibetan Plateau to the Australian Outback and from the forests of Borneo to the jungles of New Guinea. Griffin's work illuminates the variety of cultural heritages he has found across the globe.
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