Upcoming Carnegie Discoverers Events

May 23
Curator-led tour of Botanicals: Environmental Expressions in Art, the Alisa and Isaac M. Sutton Collection at Hunt Botanic Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Bet you thought that this was the field trip, but it isn’t.

September 23, 6–8 p.m.
In the Annual Wish List Project’s Scientific Staff’s Show and Tell, the lucky recipients of the Carnegie Discoverers Wish List funding get a chance to tell us what they did with the awards.

October 23
Invertebrate Zoology Collection Manager Albert Kollar and Research Associate David Brezinski, PhD, lead a geological field trip to a Moon Township. Learn all about the land beneath your feet.

December 9
Collection Manager and Head of Section Marc Wilson shares how the staff of the Section of Minerals has built one of the world's finest collections of gems and minerals.

Previous Events

Collection Manager of Mammals Suzanne McLaren with Carnegie Discoverer Harmon Ziegler at a behind-the-scenes event

April 22, 2010
Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology Matt Lamanna, PhD, shares his fossil hunting experiences in Paleontology in Antarctica, or Fossil Finding in the Deep, Deep, Deep South.

March 25, 2010
Listen to Tales from the Frontier: The Adventures of Post-Soviet Fieldwork in Kazakhstan with Curator of Anthropology Sandra Olsen, PhD, and find out about the trials, tribulations, and rewards of an extended field expedition.

February 4, 2010
Learn about exhibition development from concept to completion with Beth Redmond-Jones, consultant for Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s newest permanent exhibition, Population Impact.

December 10, 2009
The History of and the Story behind the Camel Driver Display

October 1, 2009
A Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the Buhl Digital Dome at Carnegie Science Center

June 25, 2009
2008 Wish List Grant Recipients Show and Tell

April 23, 2009
Strategic Planning with Director Sam Taylor

January 29, 2009
Tours of the Alcohol House, Bird Collection, and Hall of African Wildlife with Curator of Birds Bradley Livezey, PhD, Collection Manager of Mammals Suzanne McLaren, and Collection Manager of Amphibians and Reptiles Stephen Rogers

December 8, 2008
Neopolitan presepio with Rachel Delphia, Assistant Curator of Art at Carnegie Museum of Art, and Sam Taylor, Director of Carnegie Museum of Natural History

September 27, 2008
Powdermill Nature Reserve Trip

June 13, 2008
T. rex Returns

June 2, 2008
Meet Sam Taylor, Director, Carnegie Museum of Natural History

February 28, 2008
“Show and Tell” with Curators and Collection Managers

November 27, 2007
Tour of Wertz Gallery: Gems and Jewelry with Marc Wilson, Head of Section of Minerals

August 1, 2007
Secret sites of Carnegie Museum of Natural History with Molly’s Trolley

June 2, 2007
¡CARNAVAL!