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- Mythic Creatures Educator's Guide
- The Educator's Guide is the main teaching tool for the exhibition. It offers background and instructional strategies all correlated to standards for before, during, and after your visit. Help students understand the world's most enduring mythic creatures with this practical and printable exhibit guide.
Mythic Creatures Educator's Guide
Curriculum Materials for grades K through 12
Also available as: PDF
Also available as: PDF
May 26, 2007 - January 6, 2008
For thousands of years, fantastical creatures have been embedded in the human experience through legends and fables, ancient art, and even in the accounts of early naturalists. Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids will include spectacular sculptures, paintings, and textiles, along with a number of cultural objects ranging from medieval tapestries to shadow puppets to ceremonial masks and helmets from around the world which will bring to light surprising similarities as well as differences in the ways peoples around the world have envisioned and depicted these strange and wonderful creatures.
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Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids is organized by the American Museum of Natural History, New York, in collaboration with The Field Museum, Chicago Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau-Ottawa Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney and Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta.Mythic Creatures is proudly supported by MetLife Foundation.
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