The Material Culture Forum’s 89th Quarterly Meeting was held on October 13, 2010 at the National Museum of Natural History’s Baird Auditorium. The evening was introduced by Mary Augusta Thomas, Deputy Director of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, and moderated by Barbara Stauffer, Chief of Temporary Exhibitions at the National Museum of Natural History.
Rick Potts, Director of the Human Origins Program at the National Museum of Natural History, began the evening with an open and free tour of the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins at the National Museum of Natural History.
Presentation and discussions included:
“The Origins of the Keyboard and its Defining Role in the Western Musical Tradition,” by Kenneth Slowik, Curator of Musical Instruments at the National Museum of American History and Artistic Director of the Smithsonian Chamber Music Society.
“African Cosmos/Stellar Art: An Approach to Exhibiting African Cultural Astronomy,” by Christine Mullen Kreamer, Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the National Museum of African Art.
“Presenting Contemporary Human Origins Research in a Public Setting,” by Rick Potts.
“Cosmological Evolution of Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters,” by Christine Jones Forman, Senior Astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
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