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    GUEST COMMENTARY: Response to Jeffrey Kroessler’s Op-Ed

    Brendan J. Sexton

    The Roosevelt Memorial Sculpture outside the American Museum of Natural History. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/MacLachlan

    Jeffrey Kroessler’s view on the Teddy Roosevelt statue at the entrance to the Natural History Museum is clear and provocative, even if I have no certain answer to the questions it raises. (read more…)

    Tags : American Museum of Natural History, Brendan Sexton, guest commentary, statues
    Date:08/28/2020
    Category : Commentary
    (1) Comment

    GUEST COMMENTARY: The Man on a Horse

    Jeffrey A. Kressler

    The Roosevelt Memorial Sculpture outside the American Museum of Natural History. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/MacLachlan

    The American Museum of Natural History has requested that the City of New York remove the statue of Theodore Roosevelt from its front stoop. At a time when mobs in the street have vandalized public monuments across the nation, the museum and the city are engaging in their own act of civic vandalism. (read more…)

    Tags : American Museum of Natural History, Commentary, guest commentary, Jeffrey A. Kroessler, statues
    Date:08/18/2020
    Category : Commentary
    (2) Comment

    Understanding the Roosevelt Sculpture at the Museum of Natural History

    Ross Sandler

    Ross Sandler, Center for New York City Law Director

    The American Museum of Natural History gave the City a contemporary lesson in common sense in the manner that it has handled objections to the Roosevelt Memorial sculpture. The museum created a teaching moment in the best tradition of its educational mission. (read more…)

    Tags : American Museum of Natural History, CityLaw, Museums, Roosevelt Sculpture, Theodore Roosevelt
    Date:11/01/2019
    Category : Commentary
    (1) Comment

    Addition to American Museum of Natural History on Columbus Avenue Side Approved

    Binding Report  •  Upper West Side, Manhattan
    Museum of Natural History

    Rendering of the interior of the Museum. Image Credit: LPC.

    Approved addition, occupying a quarter acre of parkland, will increase connections for better museum circulation, provide additional space to store collection materials, and allow visitors to watch scientists at work. At its meeting on October 11, 2016, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to issue a binding report for the construction of an addition, and associated demolition, to the American Museum of Natural History, an individual landmark on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The addition, to be named the Gilder Center for Science, Education and Innovation, will be the first significant intervention on the museum campus since the completion of the Rose Center for Earth and Space in 2000. The addition would be sited on the western side of the museum, and would create new Columbus Avenue public entrance. (read more…)

    Tags : American Museum of Natural History, Chair Meenakshi Srinivasan, Commissioner Diana Chapin, Council Member Helen Rosenthal, Landmark West!, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Municipal Art Society, New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, Wellington Chen
    Date:10/31/2016
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
    (1) Comment

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