Inside the American Museum of Natural History's New Hall of Gems, Which Includes a Rihanna-Worn Treasure and a Singing Stone
The hall has been completely renovated to showcase "nature's art." June 9, 2021 This slab of amphibolite rock sourced from Gore Mountain in upstate New York contains huge almandine garnet crystals that formed more than a billion years ago. Photo by D. Finnin, ©American Museum of Natural History. Four years ago, the Halls of Gems and Minerals at New York’s American Museum of Natural History closed for long-overdue renovations. The cavelike space, deliberately designed to evoke the feeling of the mines where many of the specimens on display had been excavated, had been essentially untou...
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