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State Museum Announces Gallery Renovation Project
Published June 26, 2015 | Exhibition
On June 15, 2015, State Museum Director Mark Schaming presented a renovation master plan for the Museum's galleries to the New York State Board of Regents. The master plan calls for 35,000 square feet of new exhibitions, a changeable wall system a...
Human Frogs in the History Collections!
Published December 9, 2013 | Cultural History
The New York State Museum’s history collections contain two frog costumes for humans and one frog costume for a dog. These costumes belonged to Harry and Friede DeMarlo, a vaudeville couple that once played circuses and vaudeville houses all over ...
Memory Keepers
Published December 9, 2013 | Archaeology
When former Research and Collections Assistant Director and Curator of Ichthyology Dr. Robert Daniels retired in late 2012, he took with him over 30 years of specialist knowledge of the Museum’s fish collection, as well as key information about th...
Archaeological Discovery at Lake George
Published December 3, 2013 | Native American Archaeology
New York State Museum archaeologists have identified archaeological remains associated with a small Early Archaic camp dating to approximately 8,000 B.C. along the shore of Lake George in Warren County, New York. The site produced bifurcate and Ge...