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AMNH Presents: Origami Holiday Tree, Unfolding the Senses

Monday, November 20–Sunday, January 7 

An annual Museum tradition, the delightfully decorated Origami Holiday Tree and two merrily lit 19-foot Holiday Barosaurs welcome visitors to the Museum throughout the holiday season.

The theme of this year’s 13-foot tree is Unfolding the Senses, with models inspired by the upcoming exhibition Our Senses: An Immersive Experience. Attendees can expect to see optical illusions, balancing figures, hands, eyes, bats, a hammerhead shark, and beluga whales among other treasured models.

Volunteers, including local, national, and international origami artists, fold year-round, contributing to a collection of over 1,000 models that will be displayed on the tree. Each year the 13-foot-tree features a different theme relating to the Museum’s special exhibitions or to its collections, which includes more than 34 million artifacts and specimens. Past themes have included Mighty and Microscopic Life; Origami Night at the Museum; Wicked, Wild, and Wonderful; The Museum’s Biggest and Best; Fantastic Creatures: Mythic and Real; Origami in Flight; Under the Sea; Flowers for New York; Origami A to Z; and Origami Safari. During the holiday season, volunteers will be on hand to teach visitors of all ages origami, the art of paper folding.

The two Holiday Barosaurs, which greet visitors to the Museum on the front steps throughout the holiday season, are made of openwork stainless steel and festooned with pine boughs and lights. Illuminated at night, the whimsical dinosaurs flank the Museum’s Central Park West staircase and echo the Barosaurus mount in the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda.

 











When: Mon., Nov. 20, 2017 - Sun., Jan. 7, 2018 at 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th Street
212-769-5100
Price: Free with Museum admission
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Monday, November 20–Sunday, January 7 

An annual Museum tradition, the delightfully decorated Origami Holiday Tree and two merrily lit 19-foot Holiday Barosaurs welcome visitors to the Museum throughout the holiday season.

The theme of this year’s 13-foot tree is Unfolding the Senses, with models inspired by the upcoming exhibition Our Senses: An Immersive Experience. Attendees can expect to see optical illusions, balancing figures, hands, eyes, bats, a hammerhead shark, and beluga whales among other treasured models.

Volunteers, including local, national, and international origami artists, fold year-round, contributing to a collection of over 1,000 models that will be displayed on the tree. Each year the 13-foot-tree features a different theme relating to the Museum’s special exhibitions or to its collections, which includes more than 34 million artifacts and specimens. Past themes have included Mighty and Microscopic Life; Origami Night at the Museum; Wicked, Wild, and Wonderful; The Museum’s Biggest and Best; Fantastic Creatures: Mythic and Real; Origami in Flight; Under the Sea; Flowers for New York; Origami A to Z; and Origami Safari. During the holiday season, volunteers will be on hand to teach visitors of all ages origami, the art of paper folding.

The two Holiday Barosaurs, which greet visitors to the Museum on the front steps throughout the holiday season, are made of openwork stainless steel and festooned with pine boughs and lights. Illuminated at night, the whimsical dinosaurs flank the Museum’s Central Park West staircase and echo the Barosaurus mount in the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda.

 

Buy tickets/get more info now