Countdown to Zero: Defeating Disease
A collaboration with the Carter Center, highlighting scientific and social innovations that are ridding the world of ancient afflictions with a focus on global efforts that have been able to contain, eliminate, or eradicate disease.
Chief among these is the 30-year campaign that may soon eradicate Guinea worm disease, positioning it to become only the second human disease ever eradicated, after smallpox.
The exhibition also highlights the ongoing programs to eliminate polio and prospects for more localized elimination of river blindness, lymphatic filariasis, and malaria.
Installation History: American Museum of Natural History; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; The Carter Center; Crown Prince’s Court – Abu Dhabi; The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Museum of Science Boston
Power of Poison
Exploring poison’s paradoxical roles in nature, human health and history, literature, and myth. From toxic species that live in a remote Colombian forest, to familiar tales of illness, enchantment, or death by poison—a feature of countless fairytales, myths, and legends from around the world.
History’s most intriguing poisoning cases, many of which remain puzzling today, lead into a live presentation about a real-world poisoning case and key advances in toxicology, the science of detecting poison and the use of toxins in pharmacology.
New York Times critic Ed Rothstien wrote: “deft curatorial alchemy… one of the most theatrical exhibitions the museum has mounted”
Life at the Limits / Amazing Species
Over billions of years, living things have evolved from simple cells into an awe-inspiring array of life forms—a spectacle of behaviors, specialized parts, and exacting skills.
This exhibition reveals the diverse and sometimes jaw-dropping strategies animals and plants use to reproduce, find food, sense the world around them, and thrive in extreme habitats.
Life-size and larger-than-life models, live animals, videos, and interactive exhibits highlight a variety of ‘superpowers’ across the tree of life
Picturing Science
More than 20 sets of striking large-format prints, showcasing advanced imaging technologies used by scientists at AMNH (e.g., CT, SEM, fluorescence, histology) and revealing once-hidden, intricate details of both natural phenomena and cultural artifacts.
One of the longest running exhibitions ever mounted by the museum, and one that includes research from all divisions science. The video produced for YouTube garnered the museum’s first and only Webby award.
