Past Events / Exhibitions - 2008
July 18, 2008 to September 12, 2008
Interior Museum Opens Photography Exhibition,
A Sea of Tallgrass: the Konza Prairie
WASHINGTON – An
exhibition of photographs by Judd Patterson entitled A Sea of Tallgrass: the
Konza Prairie will open to the public on July 18, 2008 at the Interior Museum
in the main U.S. Department of the Interior building in the nation’s capital.
The exhibition will be on view until Sept. 12, 2008. The prairies of North
America at one time covered a large region of America’s West and Midwest. The
Konza Prairie, located near Manhattan, Kansas, is a small, untouched tallgrass
prairie that was preserved by efforts of Kansas State University and the Nature
Conservancy. more
January 18, 2008 - August 8, 2008
Coral Reefs: Imperiled Habitats of the Sea
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of the Interior Museum will open the exhibit Coral Reefs: Imperiled Habitats of the Sea on Jan. 18, 2008. This exhibit, which includes stunning photographs of coral reefs in U.S. waters, is free and open to the public.
To bring the world’s the attention to these beautiful
living habitats, 2008 is designated International Year of the Reef. Coral
reefs are communities formed by millions of tiny coral animals over thousands
of years. Although they provide habitat to one-third of all ocean species,
almost two-thirds of all existing coral reefs are being destroyed or are
threatened. The Department of the Interior, along with the Department
of Commerce, co-chairs the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force that was established
by Presidential Executive Order 13089 “to preserve and protect the
biodiversity, health, heritage, and social and economic value of U.S.
coral reef ecosystems and the marine environment” in the waters
of the United States and internationally. more
November 9, 2007 – May 31, 2008
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: America Responds
November 13, 2007 marks the Twenty-fifth anniversary of the ground breaking for construction of the Vietnam Wall. While controversy swirled around the monument in 1982, today over 3 million visitors a year come to pay their respects to those who gave their lives for their country in Vietnam. Each day offerings are left to the fallen and each day these personal and special objects are collected as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection and cared for by the National Park Service. The Interior Museum will be working with the National Park Service to commemorate this anniversary by illustrating the difficult process which was undertaken to create the memorial and by sharing many of the objects left by the public for the soldiers taken by the Vietnam War.