An Osage History in Killers of the Flower Moon

Editor’s Note: HMNS Collections Technician of Anthropology Anna Dean details the victimization of the Osage people depicted in the film adaptation of the bestselling novel Killers of the Flower Moon. Killers of the Flower Moon directed by Martin Scorcese and starring Lily Gladstone, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Robert DeNiro tells the story of an Osage family […]

Mayan Monday To Forensics Friday And Everything In Between: This Week’s Happenings At HMNS

Behind The Scenes Tour of the Cockrell Butterfly Center Plus Greenhouses HMNS entomologists and horticulturists will take you behind the scenes of the containment room and rooftop greenhouses–areas not open to the public–where staff cares for the Museum’s caterpillars, butterflies, other insects, food plants for the butterflies. In addition to the behind-the-scenes zones, you will […]

A New Definition Of Frostbite: Happenings This Week At HMNS

  Frozen (2013) GET TICKETS August 31 When the newly-crowned Queen Elsa accidentally uses her power to turn things into ice to curse her home in infinite winter, her sister Anna teams up with a mountain man, his playful reindeer, and a snowman to change the weather condition. 102 min. – Animation | Adventure | Comedy Won 2 Oscars.   Lecture […]

Moving Pictures and Mummifies Dinosaurs: Events This Week At HMNS

Film Screening – The Hound of the Baskervilles with Warren Chaney Tuesday, August 21, 2018 – 6:30 PM Running Time: 2 hours The original 1939 “The Hound of the Baskervilles” kicked off the legendary Sherlock Holmes films. Produced by 20th Century Fox, it starred Basil Rathbone who went on to appear in 13 more films. This […]

Our Marine Biologist Stephanie Reviews “The Meg”

My Thoughts on “The Meg” by Stephanie, the non-fictional Marie Biologist   Caution!! This contains Spoilers!!   Don’t get mad at me if you read this before watching the movie.  I warned you.     -First and foremost. Megalodons are extinct….. -No shark will continue to try to eat the metal hull of a submarine […]

Creepy Stop Motion Horror Films Made By Our Very Own X-plorations Summer Campers

The campers in Movie Monster Maker have been hard at work learning how to create stop motion animation films.  Through this week long camp, the kids learned to storyboard, made sets and characters and then filmed their movies.  Because these films are stop motion, there may be hundreds of static images in just a ten […]

Your Guide To What’s Happening This Week At HMNS

Lecture – Intelligence Investigations – An Insider’s Look at High-Tech Sleuths by Dee Smith How does intelligence investigation work in the real world? How do investigators piece together information to reveal evidence? How are new data sources–like open source intelligence, human intelligence, imagery intelligence, zero-based analysis and computer forensics–used in practice.   Intelligence expert Dee […]

HMNS Weekly Update

Frankenweenie (2012) GET TICKETS   Friday, October 14 | 7:15 p.m. | Members: $4 | Tickets: $5   Young Victor conducts a science experiment to bring his beloved dog Sparky back to life, only to face unintended, sometimes monstrous, consequences.     BTS – Mummies of the World: The Exhibition October 18, 2016 at  6:00pm […]

HMNS Happenings This Week

  Check out our New Exhibit! Gems of the Sea: The Guido T. Poppe Collection World class. One of a kind. Never before seen. Made by mollusks. The Philippines consists of over 7,500 islands in Southeast Asia, totaling a land area of approximately 116,000 square miles, and giving the Philippines the longest coastlines of any […]

Archie the Wandering T. rex Goes on a Road Trip

Archie’s blog written with the help of Victoria Smith, HMNS Assistant to the President Hi! It’s me, Archie the Wandering T. rex! After seeing the National Parks Adventure 3D giant screen movie and spending time at National Parks Photography Project exhibit, I got inspired to go on my own adventure. Fortunately, I was able to hitch […]


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