It could have been the toast of 1870s Central Park: a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed museum packed with sculptures of newly discovered dinosaurs.But when thugs with sledgehammers destroyed dinosaur models designed for the planned Paleozoic Museum in 1871, the life-size statues and their molds - and plans for the city's first dinosaur museum - were pulverized.
#united-states #researchers #understanding #philadelphia #preparation #news-release #proceedings #destruction #natural-history #history-books
[
add
]
[
|
|
...
]