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Museum Administration. acraig@uoregon.edu 541-346-3116. Ann Craig is associate director for central administration and director of public programs at the Museum of Natural and Cultural History. She earned two degrees from the University of Oregon: a BA in History and Asian Studies (2000) and an MA in Arts Management with a focus on Museum ...
The Museum of Natural and Cultural History (MNCH) is Oregon's primary repository for anthropological and paleontological collections. Officially created in 1935-36, as the Oregon State Museum of Anthropology and UO Museum of Natural History, the museum is celebrating its 75th birthday in 2010-11. It has its roots in 1876, however, when Thomas ...
Malinda’s family has deep ties to Eugene, the University of Oregon, and the Museum of Natural and Cultural History – her great grandfather and grandfather were faculty members at UO and her father Howard Stafford was a geologist who worked with Luther Cressman in the 1930s – and she likes to think he would be pleased at her service on the ...
MUSEUM ADVENTURES brings bilingual English/Spanish traveling exhibits to rural communities across Oregon with fun activities for the whole family. These exciting new educational resources are available to libraries and other community organizations in rural locations. Each traveling Museum Adventures exhibit features a set of exhibit stations ...
Condon Collection. The Museum of Natural and Cultural History traces its lineage to Oregon's first state geologist, Thomas Condon. Born in Ireland, Condon arrived in Oregon in 1852 as a Congregationalist missionary. Interested in fossils since his youth, he had studied modern geological sciences as educational background required for his ...
History. The museum's summer archaeological field school was established by Luther S. Cressman, who is known as the father of Oregon archaeology. In 1938 Cressman, excavating at Fort Rock Cave in Oregon's Northern Great Basin, recovered a cache of sagebrush bark sandals from below a layer of volcanic ash. The ash was laid down nearly 7600 years ...
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