VMNH Hosting Fun, Educational Events During Museum Day, September 29
Martinsville, Va. (September 27, 2007) - The Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville is participating in Smithsonian Museum Day on Saturday, September 29. |
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VMNH Now Home to the Largest Collection of Virginia Mammal Specimens
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (September 25, 2007) - The Virginia Museum of Natural History now holds the largest collection of Virginia mammal specimens thanks to the transfer of over 16,000 specimens from the Virginia Commonwealth University's Mammal Collection. |
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VMNH Unveils Special Exhibit at Glenwood Magnet School in Danville
Martinsville, Va. (September 21, 2007) - The Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville unveiled the special exhibit "Gifts to Our Grandchildren" today at Glenwood Magnet School in Danville during a press conference held at the school. |
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Virginia Museum of Natural History to be closed September 18
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (September 13, 2007) - The Virginia Museum of Natural History will be closed on Tuesday, September 18 to allow the installation of electrical phase protection at the new museum. |
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Virginia Museum of Natural History to Host Annual Indian Festival
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (September 7, 2007) - The Virginia Museum of Natural History's 23rd Annual Indian Festival will be held on Saturday, September 15 from noon to 5 p.m. outside the Martinsville Middle School, at 201 Brown St., in Uptown Martinsville, Virginia. |
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Virginia Museum of Natural History Signs on for Museum Day 2007
Martinsville, Va. (August 31, 2007) - On Saturday, September 29, 2007, the Virginia Museum of Natural History will participate in "Museum Day," presented by Smithsonian Magazine and Hyundai Motor America. |
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Giant Ground Sloth Now on Display at VMNH
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (August 30, 2007) - One of the Virginia Museum of Natural History's all-time crowd favorites has made a triumphant return. |
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Snakes to Slither Through VMNH
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (July 13, 2007) - Snakes will soon be slithering through the Virginia Museum of Natural History and museum staff couldn't be happier. |
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Virginia Museum of Natural History Set to Open Permanent Exhibits
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (June 29, 2007) - The Virginia Museum of Natural History will open its much anticipated permanent exhibit galleries to visitors on Saturday, July 14. |
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Virginia Museum of Natural History to Host Ground-Breaking Virginia Indians Exhibit
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (June 22, 2007) - The Virginia Museum of Natural History is hosting the ground-breaking special exhibit "Beyond Jamestown: Virginia Indians Yesterday and Today", a leading attraction for America's 400th Anniversary. |
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VMNH Foundation Awarded Grant in Support of Virginia Indians Exhibit
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (June 22, 2007) - The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities has awarded the Virginia Museum of Natural History Foundation a $2,500 grant in support of the upcoming special exhibit "Beyond Jamestown: Virginia Indians Yesterday and Today". |
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WeatherBug Now at the Virginia Museum of Natural History
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (June 14, 2007) - The Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville, Virginia is now a host site for a WeatherBug station, joining over 8,000 other WeatherBug Tracking Stations with more than 1,000 weather cameras across the U.S. |
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Ancient Long-Necked Gliding Reptile Discovered
CHICAGO, IL (June 12, 2007) - In the latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, scientists describe a remarkable new long-necked, gliding reptile from 220 million-year old sediments of eastern North America. |
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VMNH Foundation Board Elects New Officers, Members as Capital Campaign Eclipses $3 Million MarK
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (May 29, 2007) - The Virginia Museum of Natural History Foundation recently elected four officers to serve on the Foundation's board of directors. |
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VMNH NAMES AWARDEES TO BE HONORED AT JEFFERSON AWARDS
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (April 16, 2007) - The Virginia Museum of Natural History Foundation has announced the awardees and presenters for the 20th Annual Thomas Jefferson Awards. |
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ENDANGERED SPECIES: WHAT GOOD ARE THEY?
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (April 24, 2006) - The Virginia Museum of Natural History Lecture Series resumes Thursday night at 7 p.m. in the Mr. and Mrs. L. Dudley Walker Lecture Hall, the first time the series will be held at the new museum facility. |
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BUGS TAKING OVER VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (April 17, 2006) - Only weeks since opening, the hallways of the new Virginia Museum of Natural History will soon be crawling with bugs, and this is one time that museum staff couldn't be happier. |
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VMNH NAMES AWARDEES TO BE HONORED AT JEFFERSON AWARDS
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (April 16, 2007) - The Virginia Museum of Natural History Foundation has announced the awardees and presenters for the 20th Annual Thomas Jefferson Awards. |
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Nominations Sought for 2007 Jefferson Awards
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (February 12, 2007) - The Virginia Museum of Natural History is seeking nominations through March 7 for the various awards to be presented at the 20th Annual VMNH Foundation Thomas Jefferson Awards. |
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Grand Opening Festivities Planned for Virginia Museum of Natural History
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (February 2, 2007) - The Virginia Museum of Natural History is hosting a 100 Hour Celebration for the opening of its new, world-class museum facility, the nation's newest natural history museum. |
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VMNH Curator Elected President of Prestigious American Microscopical Society
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (February 1, 2007) - Virginia Museum of Natural History Curator of Marine Biology, Dr. Judith Winston, has recently been elected as president of the prestigious American Microscopical Society. |
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Blockbuster Exhibits Open at Virginia Museum of Natural
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (January 3, 2007) - The special exhibits "Feathered Dinosaurs of China" and "Chinasaurs: The Great Dinosaurs of China" open today, January 3, at the Virginia Museum of Natural History Research and Collections Center at 1001 Douglas Avenue in Martinsville. |
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"Feathered Dinosaurs of China" Exhibit to Open At VMNH
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (Dec. 7, 2006) - The special exhibits "Feathered Dinosaurs of China" and "Chinasaurs: The Great Dinosaurs of China" will open January 3, 2007 at the Virginia Museum of Natural History Research and Collections Center at 1001 Douglas Avenue in Martinsville. |
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Mrs. John Rolfe - better known as Pocahontas
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (October 17, 2006) - The true story of John Rolfe and Pocahontas will unfold when John Haden, chair of the East Lindsey District, Lincolnshire, England 2007 Community Program presents "Mrs. John Rolfe of Heacham - better known as Pocahontas" on Sunday, October 22 from 7 to 7:45 p.m. at the Carol Hooker Exhibit Hall, located in the J. Burness Frith Economic Development Center, at Patrick Henry Community College. |
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New World-Class VMNH Facility Nearing Completion
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (October 9, 2006) - Considerable progress continues to be made despite delays in construction, which have led the Virginia Museum of Natural History to postpone staff relocation and educational programs at the new facility from October 28, 2006 by 45 to 60 days. |
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Virginia Master Naturalist Program to Brighten Skies, Expand Horizons
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (September 21, 2006) - Residents of the Martinsville-Henry County area are about to get their chance to keep the region green and clean. |
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Virginia Museum of Natural History to Host Annual Indian
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (September 8, 2006) - The Virginia Museum of Natural History's 22nd annual Indian Festival will be held on Saturday, September 16 from noon to 5 p.m. at 65 West Main Street in Uptown Martinsville. |
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Virginia Museum of Natural History Explores New Digs
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (August 23, 2006) - From bold vision to 89,127 square feet of imposing reality, the Virginia Museum of Natural History will make the implausible true to life when the original museum facility on Douglas Avenue closes its doors to the public on September 4 and relocation to the new, world-class facility begins. |
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Virginia Museum of Natural History Prepares Specimens For New Facility
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (July 25, 2006) - In an effort to restore some of the most intriguing animal specimens available, the Virginia Museum of Natural History drew on the expertise of an outstanding team led by renowned taxidermist, Paul Rhymer. |
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Virginia Museum Of Natural History Plays Key Role In Stimulating Area's Economy
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (June 27, 2006) - The new, world-class Virginia Museum of Natural History facility, opening in October, is set to serve as an economic boon to the area and Commonwealth. |
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Virginia Museum of Natural History Increases Staff
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (June 15, 2006) - The Virginia Museum of Natural History is actively bolstering its effectiveness by hiring key staff members in advance of the opening of the new, world-class VMNH facility in October 2006. |
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Chinese Museum Loans Feathered Dinosaur, Other Fossils to the Virginia Museum of Natural History
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (June 14, 2006) - Representatives of the Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville, Virginia recently traveled to the National Geological Museum of China to arrange for the loan of fossils from the famous Yixian Formation of Liaoning Province, including one of the pectacular feathered dinosaurs. |
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National Geographic Society Awards Grant to Virginia Museum of Natural History Researcher
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (June 6, 2006) - Dr. Nicholas C. Fraser, director of research and collections at the Virginia Museum of Natural History, has been awarded a $25,740 grant from the Committee for Research and Exploration of the National Geographic Society. |
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George Lyle Named Chairman of Virginia Museum of Natural History Board of Trustees
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (June 1, 2006) - George Lyle has been elected chairman of the Virginia Museum of Natural History Board of Trustees, replacing Professor Ervin L. Jordan, Jr., who completed his two-year term as chairman of the museum's governing board last month. |
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VMNH Named Statewide Partner for America's 400th Anniversary
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (May 31, 2006) - The Virginia Museum of Natural History has been named a Statewide Partner with Jamestown 2007, the group planning America's 400th anniversary honoring the founding of Jamestown, Virginia - the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. |
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Virginia Museum of Natural History Receives Tobacco Commission Grant
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (May 5, 2006) - The Virginia Museum of Natural History Foundation has received a grant of $350,000 from the Virginia Tobacco Commission to fund state-of-the-art permanent exhibits in the new world'class Virginia Museum of Natural History facility opening in September. |
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Uncovering Virginia's Past
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (May 4, 2006) - The Virginia Museum of Natural History will provide visitors with a glimpse into the lives of this region's early inhabitants with the exhibit "The Dan River People: Virginia's Indians', opening Saturday, May 6. |
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Life Beyond the Beach
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (April 21, 2006) - Even on the most secluded beaches, humans are not alone. |
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Virginia Museum of Natural History Names Awardees to be Honored at Ceremony
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (April 3, 2006) - The Virginia Museum of Natural History Foundation has announced the recipients for its 19th Annual Thomas Jefferson Awards according to Tim Gette, Executive Director. |
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Bugs Taking Over Virginia Museum of Natural History
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (April 3, 2006) - The hallways of the Virginia Museum of Natural History will soon be crawling with bugs, and this is one time that museum staff couldn't be happier. VMNH will host its 1st Annual Bug Daze event on Sunday, April 23 from 1 to 4 p.m. |
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Curator's Deep Sea Adventure
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (March 8, 2006) - From Martinsville to the Mid-Atlantic and back again, Dr. Jim Beard, VMNH curator of earth sciences, will present "Voyage to the bottom of the sea: an IODP expedition to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge" as part of the VMNH lecture series on March 14 at 4 p.m. at the museum. |
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VMNH Receives Smithsonian Community Grant
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (March 8, 2006) - The Virginia Museum of Natural History has received a $4,937 grant from the Smithsonian Community Grant program to assist in the development and implementation of programming for the upcoming Smithsonian traveling exhibition A Magic Web: The Tropical Forest of Barro Colorado Island. |
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A MAGIC WEB Coming to Virginia Museum of Natural History
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (March 7, 2006) - The tropical forest of Panama's Barro Colorado Island is a luxuriant community of plants and animals, pulsating with life and offering an astonishing view of nature. |
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"Doodle Bugs" Brings Wonder of Natural History to Children
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (February 16, 2006) - When Virginia Museum of Natural History educator Christy Deatherage brings out a skunk, dinosaur bones, or offers up a bear's mouth for children to put their hands in, it quickly becomes clear that this is no ordinary learning experience. |
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VMNH Curators to Speak at Darwin Celebration
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (February 6, 2006) - Two Virginia Museum of Natural History curators will deliver lectures at Richard Bland College, in Petersburg, on February 10 as part of a celebration of naturalist Charles Darwin's 197th birthday. |
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New Virginia Museum of Natural History Reaches Campaign Milestone
RICHMOND, Va. (Feb. 15, 2006) - The Virginia Museum of Natural History today announced that its foundation has raised $2 million, meeting the Virginia General Assembly's challenge to fund world-class permanent exhibits at its new museum under construction in Martinsville. |
