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Allosaurus fragilis skeleton collected at the Carnegie Quarry (Dinosaur National Monument). |
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Stegosaurus ungulatus skeleton composited mostly from two skeletons collected at the Carnegie Quarry (Dinosaur National Monument). |
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Juvenile skeleton of Camarasaurus lentus collected at the Carnegie Quarry (Dinosaur National Monument). |
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Dryosaurus altus skeleton being pursued by Ceratosaurus nasicornis. |
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The Stillwater depot holds a collection of photos and artifacts connected with the area around Stillwater and the St. Croix River. Photographs depicting the early years of settlement and logging operations are blown up poster size and mounted, with a full explanation of the events pictured. Cases hold railroad tools and daily use items, and full size dummies are costumed in antique clothing. The museum is small, but there is a lot to see. The building itself is a museum piece. There is a gift shop, containing all manner of railroad-themed items, among other things. The Depot is only open when the Minnesota Zephyr is running, which varies seasonally. |
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Fossil Preparation Lab at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. |
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Greer Lankton's It's all about ME, Not You was first shown in 1996. Unfortunately, Greer passed away after the exhibit opening and when the show closed, we put the piece in storage. Now, thanks to the generosity of the Lankton family, it has been donated to the Mattress Factory for permanent display. Open a tall door and pass through a narrow alley beside a "white trash" house. It is clad in white siding with old windows and an astroturf patio littered with fall leaves. Inside, Greer Lankton recreated the Chicago apartment where she lived and worked. The walls are painted in deep colors. Stars cover the ceiling. The room is inhabited by the dolls and figures Lankton made during the course of her life – Raggedy Anns, one of whom is anorexic, a morphine addict on a cot surrounded by pill bottles. Throughout the room are very personal shrines Lankton has created, to Patti Smith, Candy Darling, to Jesus, and many others to the artist herself. Several of Lankton's figures were included in the 1995 Whitney Biennial and the 1995 Venice Biennale, but she never before had the opportunity to create a large-scale installation. Much of her work is clearly autobiographical, revealing her obsession with her own body. Born male, she became female at the age of 21. Her work has been described by critic Holland Cotter as "art of superbly disciplined and unusually distressing beauty." Lankton wanted to recreate her apartment in an ideal form, designing an environment of "artificial nature/total indulgence," filled with "dolls engrossed in glamour and self-abuse." Like the artist herself, Lankton's dolls and environments possess a disarming mix of innocence and decadence, hope and pathos. She said her work was "all about me," reflecting her life as an artist, a transsexual and a drug addict. But beyond this, from her position as an outsider, Lankton eloquently explored and questioned accepted norms of gender and sexuality, as well as the powerful imagery of popular culture and consumerism. It is tempting to think that Lankton knew her installation at the Mattress Factory was her last, filling the space with a retrospective selection of her beloved dolls and everything that was most meaningful to her. |
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Pterosaur view of Dinosaurs in Their Time Jurassic sauropods. |
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This is one of several famous aircraft on display at the museum in Wetaskiwin, Alberta.
The Bristol Freighter has been described as "40,000 rivets flying in close formation" :o) |
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See if you can spot the 260 Ladybirds basking in the sunlight (including the only one with it's wings out) ?
History...this is just one of a number of historic sites run by Jersey Heritage (www.jerseyheritage.org) Hamptonne House takes it's name from the family who bought the property in 1633. It was Laurens Hamptonne who proclaimed Charles II King, in the Market Place in St. Helier, in February 1649. Over the centuries this house has been transformed a number of times, as tastes changed. Originally it was a large single room open to the rafters, the first floor was added in the sixteenth century in order to allow the farmer and his family more privacy from the servants etc...... |