Exhibits
Museum collections total more than four million specimens and include specimens of paleontology, zoology, archeology, mineralogy, ornithology, and a variety of other scientific subjects.
A beloved full-scale model of a stegosaurus on the lawn delights Cleveland children.
Some of the more important specimens include:
- Extensive examples of Late Devonian Cleveland Shale fish.
- Nine hundred monkey and ape skeletons, and more than 3,100 human skeletons (the Hamann-Todd Collection).
- The only specimen of the small tyrannosaur Nanotyrannus lancensis.
- The holotype of the Haplocanthosaurus sauropod.
- The most complete mount of a Coelophysis bauri.
- The remains of Balto the sled dog.
- An extensive mineralogy collection that includes a moon rock and the Jeptha Wade gem collection.
- Replica skeletons of Triceratops and Jane, a juvenile tyrannosaurid.
- Multiple mastodon and mammoth specimens.
- A cast of an Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, an early hominid affectionately dubbed Lucy.
- A new T-rex skeleton that is now on display.
The museum has made many discoveries over the years. Recently, in Vertebrate Paleontology, both the remains of a Titanicthis in Ohio and a new ceratopsian, Albertaceratops nesmoi, have been made. Both are expected to go on display eventually.
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Famous quotes containing the word exhibits:
“It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)