The Department of Geology currently occupies both wings. Dr. John Hall, assistant director of the Natural History Museum. Lydia Joffray appointed Director of Gorgas House. The Gorgas House later serves as the University post office and infirmary where President Gorgas’s wife Amelia Gayle Gorgas was nurse and postmistress. Dr. Ian Brown is named part time director of the Alabama Museum of Natural History. The cornerstone for Smith Hall was laid on May 28, 1907. During this period the Alabama Museum of Natural History was very active in acquiring natural history objects by collecting, trading and donation, especially fossil and recent mollusks of Alabama. Eugene A. Smith recruited collector Herbert Huntington Smith (no relation) as the museum's curator. UA Opera Theatre was named a national finalist in the American Prize competition for Opera Production for “Semele” and “Letters from Quebec to Providence in the Rain” from its 2017-2018 season. Expedition 23 is divided into four, one-week sessions, and tuition is $400 per week. Mary Beth Prondzinski's Isolation Observations - Blueberries. 1908: Professor Smith leads groundbreaking ceremonies for Smith Hall, a building designed on a smaller scale to resemble the great natural history museums in the north. Welcome to the Museums From Your Home live stream, presented by the University of Alabama Museums! View of the Grand Gallery of Smith Hall looking North. The Alabama Museum of Natural History acquires 175 acres at Moundville. 1827: The State of Alabama selects Tuscaloosa as state capital. The museum also improved its exhibits and provided identified sets of natural history objects to schools in Alabama. Special Saturday science programs, Moundville Native American Festival, special guided tours of Smith Hall and Moundville Archaeological Park. The Gorgas family remained there until the 1950s. Welcome to the Museums From Your Home livestream, presented by the University of Alabama Museums! Alabama Natural History Society members receive a tuition discount. The Steward’s Hall (later the Gorgas House) is saved. Immediately inside the entrance is a center hall dominated by a sweeping staircase made of Alabama marble and supported by Alabama-manufactured iron. Alabama Natural History Society is formed and the Board of Regents is reestablished. Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 The University of Alabama acquires the Alabama Museum of Natural History along with Mound State Monument. Today, we'll be joined by Dr. John Friel, the Director of the Alabama Museum of Natural HIstory, to learn about the lizards and snakes of Alabama! The Alabama Museum of Natural History publishes the first issue of NatureSouth as a benefit of membership. The Alabama Museum of Natural History is the state’s natural history museum, located in Smith Hall at the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa. 1860: Cadet Eugene Allen Smith enters the University of Alabama, receives his degree in 1862, and serves as Confederate drillmaster for the University of Alabama Corps of Cadets. XXXX 1985: The Alabama Museum of Natural History is restructured and moves from the College of Arts and Sciences to the Office of Academic Affairs. Her endeavors included seeing her late husband's malacological projects through to completion, which she accomplished by recruiting Calvin Goodrich and other malacologists. For more information on the Alabama Natural History Society, please visit the web site http://amnh.ua.edu, or call Kelli Harris at (205) 348-9826. Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0340, Department of Museum Research & Collections, Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, Towards Global Volunteer Monitoring of Odonate Abundance, Dr. Kocot Awarded NSF Grant to Digitize ALMNH Invertebrate Zoology Collection, Moundville Archaeological Park Has Re-opened. XXXX 1983: Professor Douglas E. Jones is named director of the Alabama Museum of Natural History. XXXX 19?? For more information or to register, call 205/348-1516 or send an e-mail to Jan Mize at jmize@aalan.ua.edu. "UA Museum to Observe 50th Anniversary of Hodges Meteorite", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alabama_Museum_of_Natural_History&oldid=950489441, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 12 April 2020, at 09:45. The Alabama Museum of Natural History publishes the first issue of NatureSouth as a benefit of membership. 2016: Dr. John Abbott is appointed Director of Museum Research and Collections. 1892: Professor Eugene Allen Smith helps organize a football team at the University of Alabama. The Alabama Museum of Natural History acquires Dr. Doug Phillips and his Discovering Alabama video series. XXXX 1993: Ken Gaddy becomes director of the Paul W. Bryant Museum. [1] The Grand Gallery Exhibition Hall houses a replica of a Basilosaurus cetoides, an Eocene whale that has been designated as the State Fossil. Tuscaloosa, Ala. – The University of Alabama Museum of Natural History expedition camp is June 10 through July 7 and is the only program in the United States that provides a hands-on, scientific field school to students as young as 14.
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