All that will accompany the art is a sign with a message that reads, "This section of the exhibition contains sexually explicit material," museum spokeswoman Olivia Rickman told The Huffington Post.
Borrowing a collection from a patron is an easy way to show material a museum does not have.
These objects are the raw material for museum exhibitions and a memorial that do not yet exist.
No wonder that the Smithsonian's nascent National Museum of African American History and Culture chose this subject for this show, one of its first traveling exhibitions, offering, in cooperation with the Apollo, an anticipatory prelude to the kind of material the museum itself will incorporate after the exhibition's scheduled opening in Washington in 2015.
Analysis of material from museum objects occurred with and without helium purging over 100-400 s using a 0.65 mm or 1.5 mm collimator, 50 kV, and 500 μA.
As we all know, paper is a rather delicate material, and museum curators put in extra effort to preserve and protect it.
This is particularly valuable in mammals, where there are often significant amounts of material in museum collections, and where habitat loss, degradation and fragmentation may not allow meaningful interpretation of current diets.
The morphological samples were chosen based on the availability of subadult cranial material in museum collections.
Until recently, such broad inferences would invariably have required the undesirable dissection of valuable material, including museum type specimens.
Cost is $4 for materials, plus museum admission: $4; under 2 and members, free.
