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Following master planning and designs by the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based architectural firm, Graham Gund Architects, ground was broken in 1989, and on October 5, 1992, Fernbank Museum of Natural History opened to the public. The new building is carefully located behind a row of historic houses, and features a glass-enclosed atrium ...
Fernbank is the 4th oldest environmental conservation not-for-profit in the United States. [5] In 1964 the Fernbank Trustees developed a 48-year lease which was accepted by the DeKalb County Board of Education, agreeing to manage and maintain the forest in exchange for offering free access to the public.
In 2012 Fernbank Science Center was the recipient of a grant from Lockheed Martin which was used to refurbish the Jim Cherry Memorial Planetarium, and give the theater a technological upgrade bringing it into the 21st century and the digital age. A major component of technological upgrade is the fulldome/immersive projection system, produced by ...
Fernbank, Alabama; Fernbank was the estate of Col. Z. D. Harrison in DeKalb County, Georgia. Following his death in 1938, it was preserved and devoted to educational purposes. It lends its name to the following: Fernbank Forest; Fernbank Museum of Natural History; Fernbank Observatory; Fernbank Science Center
Jun. 25—ATLANTA — With another edition of the "Jurassic Park" series of feature films set to pack movie houses this summer, Fernbank Museum is doing a bit of paleontology digging of its own ...
Museum Exhibit: NatureQuest at Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta, U.S. Museum Exhibit: YOU! The Experience at Museum of Science and Industry , Chicago, U.S.
John Charles Olmsted (September 14, 1852 – February 24, 1920 [1]) was an American landscape architect.The nephew and adopted son of Frederick Law Olmsted, he worked with his father and his younger brother, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., in their father's firm.
Its primary art museum is the Columbus Museum of Art, which operates its main location as well as the Pizzuti Collection, featuring contemporary art. The museum, founded in 1878, focuses on European and American art up to early modernism that includes extraordinary examples of Impressionism , German Expressionism , and Cubism . [ 3 ]