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In the Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien, Gondolin was the Sindarin name for the city of Singing Stone, although the name Gondolin itself means something...

Things are looking up for New York City. A summer of post-vaccine fun is in full swing, people are returning to the city, it just got a brand new park, and now one of its most iconic cultural attractions has a brand new hall devoted to all things sparkly. Opening this weekend is the Mignone Hall of Gems and Minerals at the American Natural History Museum on the west side of Central Park. It gives a once outdated corner of the museum a much...

The American Museum of Natural History's Hall of Gems and Minerals is newly renovated and reopens with "Beautiful Creatures," an exhibit of stunning jewelry inspired by animals.

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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