New online home for the Cohoes Mastodon
Where the Cohoes Mastodon lived before the place it lived before the current State Museum. (Yep, so two places ago.)
The State Museum has launched a new mini website for the Cohoes Mastodon exhibit and it's worth a look.
The site is full of interesting facts and explainers about mastodons generally (they're not mammoths!), and the Cohoes Mastodon specifically -- including a biography of his relatively short, hungry life. And it's illustrated with a bunch of large-format photos and diagrams, some of them interactive.
The online exhibit also includes a section about the exhibit. (An exhibit exhibit?) And it's various homes since the mastodon skeleton was discovered in Cohoes 1886 at Harmony Mills. The photo above is from that section -- it's from the old Geological and Agricultural Hall that was once at State and Lodge.
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He'll always have a spot in my heart on the NYSM 404 page.
... said Tim on Jan 20, 2017 at 8:40 AM | link