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ASDM NEWS > OCTOBER • NOVEMBER • DECEMBER 2016 A newsletter for friends of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum


NEWS DIRECTOR’S UPDATE:


Looking Ahead While Honoring Our Past By Craig Ivanyi, Executive Director


Since its founding in 1952, the Desert Museum has always endeavored to provide a comprehensive understanding of the Sonoran Desert region to the millions of visitors (local, national, and international) who have visited this world-class institution.


The Museum’s founders strived to provide an enjoyable educational experience that combined showcasing the living zoological and biological collections with a comprehensive collection of minerals and other artifacts speaking to geology and earth history. By presenting these three elements as integral to understanding the region, the Museum instilled an ethos of conservation that continues to be a key message today. From the beginning, the Museum has been an industry leader in natural history exhibitry and interpretation.


Last autumn I highlighted several exhibits that we were planning and designing. Since then, we have completed several of them


(and more are planned) so I thought this was a good time to provide an update.


THE ARTS In recent years, the Museum added the visual and performing arts to its repertoire. Showcasing the arts provides the Museum visitor with a different type of experience – aesthetic as well as emotional. The Museum began including the visual arts with the establishment of the Art Institute. Performing arts in the form of a concert series was introduced and this was followed by engaging in the written word – poetry to be precise. These artistic endeavors allow us to be present, observant, and to see the world afresh with imagination,


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