Yosemite Gigantea - Mammoth Plate Exhibition

[kswatapug]

If you are in the vicinity of the park between now and September 30, the Yosemite Museum Gallery is featuring an exhibit of 40 mammoth plate photographs by Eadweard Muybridge, Carleton Watkins and Charles Weed from the NPS Museum Collection. It was prints such as these by Watkins that helped convince Congress to set Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove aside in 1864. Also included in the exhibit is a slide show of additional mammoth plate images, and others from the collection.

 

[Curt]

That sound great, I'll try to get down there. I was going to be in the area anyway.

Curt

 

[kjsphoto]

I am there! Thank you for sharing this link... It the exhibit open now? Where about is the display? Is it in the Ansels Adams Gallery?

Thanks,

Kev

 

[kswatapug]

The exhibit commenced yesterday and is open daily 10 am to Noon and 1 to 4 pm until the end of September.

It is on display in the Yosemite Museum Gallery, which is on the first floor of the stone and timber building with the ten foot cross section of a sequoia leaning against it, just west of the Valley Visitor Center. The building also houses the Native American exhibits, archives and upstairs, the Research Library.

FYI, the Yosemite Museum has over 1 million items in its collection, a slender fraction of which are on display at any given time. The long range plan is for the current Village Store to be converted into the transportation hub of the valley and become a new visitor center. Most of the historic buildings in the village campus are slated to be converted to use as a series of museums.