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New Museum Exhibit to Showcase CMU's Fine Feathered Friends
 MEDIA CONTACT: Heather Smith, 989-774-1702
PROGRAM CONTACT: Kirsten Nicholson or Bill Pretzer, 989-774-3829

Visitors to the Central Michigan University Museum of Cultural and Natural History soon will get a "bird's-eye view" of a new exhibit scheduled to open June 11. 

Showcasing the third largest collection of birds in Michigan, the new exhibit, entitled "Fine Feathered Friends: Birds of the CMU Museum," features the museum's renowned mounted-bird collection, from eagles to hummingbirds, turkeys to warblers, and everything in between. More than 400 mounted specimens, hundreds of bird skins, and dozens of eggs, represent over 125 species of birds.<Read more>

 
 

Museum Opens New Exhibit

Media Contact:  Heather Hutchins (989-774-3197)

A rare reptile called a Tuatara from islands near New Zealand, a poster from 1917 on the effects of alcohol, a drum made by a member of a Pigmy tribe in the Congo and a CMU beanie are all part of the CMU Museum of Cultural and Natural History's first new exhibit in 13 years.

The museum's new exhibit, "CMU's Best Kept Secret -- Bicycles, Beanies and Birds ... Oh My," was designed by students in CMU's Introduction to Museum Work class during the fall 2006 semester. This exhibit, which will run through May 7, is in the museum's temporary exhibit gallery, adjacent to the main exhibit that illustrates how Michigan's animal and human inhabitants have formed the modern Michigan landscape.<Read more>
 

 

CMU Hires New Museum Curators!!

Media Contact:  Heather Hutchins (989-774-3197)


MOUNT PLEASANT – The Museum of Cultural and Natural History at Central Michigan University will soon be under new leadership.  Two new curators have been hired to take over operations of the museum located in Rowe Hall.  They bring with them nearly 50 years of combined museum experience with a passion for Anolis lizards on one hand and material culture on the other.

Bill Pretzer will join CMU as director of the museum and curator for historical collections, and Kirsten Nicholson will take on the role of curator for natural history collections.  Both will begin their new positions August 21.  As curators of the museum, Pretzer and Nicholson will oversee the museum’s operations, including exhibitions, educational programs and management of the collections. <Read more>
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