The museum's two parts -- a former photo-engraving plant built in 1928 and a an adjacent small 1980's building -- had been flooded by the East River.
The galleries are housed in indoor and semi-outdoor galleries created from the old photo-engraving plant that served as Noguchi's studio and encircle a sculpture garden with yet more of the artist's work.
He opened a studio and living quarters across the street in 1961, acquired the former photo-engraving plant the museum now occupies in 1974, and began designing and developing the museum in 1981.
Banks Florilegiumm, a collection of engravings of plants compiled by Banks and based on drawings by Swedish botanist Daniel Solander during Cook's 1768 71 voyage, was not published in full until 1989.
Until 1985, when the operation moved to Blauvelt, in Rockland County, as many as 2,000 workers were employed at the plant, primarily for the engraving and printing of stocks.
a The engraving pattern and the engraved shells.
In the 1700s he assembled 8,000 rare natural specimens and curiosities, including shells, insects, minerals, plants, paintings, engravings and examples of rare exotica from Africa, Asia and the New World.
Grew's best and most popular work, The Anatomy of Plants (1682), includes a section on the anatomy of flowers and many excellent wood engravings that represent the three-dimensional, microscopic structure of plant tissue.
In laser engraving laser is used to mark or engrave an object.
Gesner never completed a similarly comprehensive survey of plant life, but his notes and about 1,500 wood engravings of plants and their important flowers and seeds were used by other authors for two centuries after his death.
