New York State Museum
The New York State Museum in Albany, New York is a museum of natural history , geology , anthropology , archeology, and handicrafts . It's on the Empire Plaza.
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Since 1842, its collections have been in the Old State Hall (later called the Geological Hall ) and later in the New York State Geological and Natural History Survey, founded in 1836 .
The geologists Edward Hitchcock and Ebenezer Emmons worked here ; James Hall was director from 1870 to 1894 . In 1856 it found its place in the purpose-built Geological and Agricultural Hall and was renamed the New York State Museum of Natural History in 1870 . In 1912 it moved to the newly built State Education Building and in 1976 to the Cultural Education Center (which also houses the New York State Library and the New York State Archives ).
Frederick Merrill was director from 1894 to 1904 , followed by John Mason Clarke until 1925
In addition to fossils, animal and plant preparations, minerals and rocks, prehistoric finds, for example pottery or relics of Ice Age hunting in today's New York state, Iroquois objects (collected in particular by Lewis H. Morgan ) and agricultural products made by New Yorker shakers are presented Device and furniture.
A vehicle from CF Weeber Manufacturing Works is also part of the exhibition.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Geoffrey N. Stein: Weebermobile (PDF; English)
Coordinates: 42 ° 38 ′ 54 " N , 73 ° 45 ′ 42" W.