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Welcome to the Center for PostNatural History Open Most Sundays: Noon-4 Dedicated to the advancement of knowledge relating to the complex interplay between culture, nature, and biotechnology....

Big Farms Make Big Flu We have a limited number of signed copies of Rob Wallace's extraordinarily timely book Big Farms Make Big Flu available in our online store. All proceeds will go to...

The Daily: The Battle Over the Sea Monkey Fortune Listen to Jack Hitt read his brilliant story on the legal battle of The Amazing Sea Monkeys™ on this weeks episode of The Daily. Center for PostNatural History w...

Gas Masks for Dogs US Army Chemical Corps Museum This collection of approximately 6,000 artifacts pertaining to the history of chemical, biological, and radiological warfare is...

Spectres of the PostNatural This series of stereoscopic (3-D) photographs of specimens from the CPNH allow the postnatural to be viewed in an entirely new scale. Seattle Art Fair...

Domestication of the Dinosaur Now on display at the Center for PostNatural History, Pittsburgh. Oct. 2015 - Present.

Radio: It's Only Post-Natural The excellent segment originally produced for The Pulse by Irina Zohrov, is now on NPR's Studio 360

Birdlike & Wingless "Birdlike & Wingless", our collaboration with musicologist Ian Nagoski, will be on display in Baltimore's Peale Museum throughout the month of October as part of...

Just Add Water: The Story of The Amazing Sea-Monkeys™ This is the story of how a tiny, magical creature was transformed into a cultural phenomenon by inventor, marketing genius and complicated eccentric Harold von...

How This Adorable Frog Became One of the Earliest Pregnancy Tests Around Original story. How This Adorable Frog Became One of the Earliest Pregnancy Tests Around By Kate Leaver If you ever get the question "which common...

Earth in the Age of Humans Carnegie Magazine: Earth in the Age of Humans By Julie Hannon Tucked away in an unassuming office near Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s world-renowned b...

Radio New Zealand Interview Radio New Zealand interview Kathryn Ryan talks to Richard Pell, the curator of the Centre for PostNatural History, which was built to exhibit how humans have...

London show confirms the natural world is dead. Good riddance Original article in New Scientist. 24 January 2017. London show confirms the natural world is dead. Good riddance. A Wellcome Collection exhibition demonstrates...

HELLO, WORLD: Making Nature at Wellcome Collection Fantastic review of the exhibition "Making Nature" that we co-curated at the Wellcome Collection, written by Justin Hopper: The Learned Pig

Radio: CPNH on The Pulse Listen to The Pulse discuss the Center for PostNatural History as part of their feature on Natural History Museums. By IRINA ZHOROV This piece is a part of our...

This Museum Documents All the Ways Man Has Messed With Nature Read the original story on Vice The Center for PostNatural History is a small museum in the Garfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh. According to the museum's...

The Battle Over the Sea-Monkey Fortune Read Jack Hitt's extraordinary article for the New York Times Magazine: The Battle Over the Sea-Monkey Fortune. "According to Richard Pell, who maintains an...

HyperAllergic: A Museum for the PostNatural Age Original interview: https://hyperallergic.com/271709/a-museum-for-our-postnatural-age/ A Museum for Our Postnatural Age by Ben Valentine on February 24,...

Science Friday w/ Ira Flatow Listen to Richard Pell, Director of the Center for PostNatural History speak with host Ira Flatow on the October 9th edition of NPR's Science Friday. Several...

American Scientist: Bringing the PostNatural Into View This article originally appeared in the April/May 2015 issue of American Scientist Magazine. Bringing Postnatural History into View Domesticated species of...

National Geographic: Age of Disbelief "It’s an old but troubling phenomenon: Many of us reject the evidence that scientists painstakingly compile." Read the full article at National Geographic M...

Nature: Interview Originally appeared in the February 16th, 2012 issue of Nature Transgene Curator Interview by Jascha Hoffman Why did you start the museum? As an...

Scapegoat: Rich Pell in Conversation with Emily Kutil Photo by Heather Mull. Originally appeared in issue No. 5 "Excess" of the journal Scapegoat. Welcome to the Museum of PostNatural History: Rich Pell in...

Popular Science: Top 25 Nerd Road Trips This article originally appeared in the July 2013 issue of Popular Science magazine. Center For PostNatural History Courtesy Center for PostNatural...

New Scientist: Culture Lab Originally appeared in the March 2012 New Scientist Culture Lab blog. By Sara Reardon It was once the pastime of gentlemen: collecting curious plant and...

National Geographic: PostNatural History Originally appeared in National Geographic's science salon "Phenomena", March 25th, 2009 PostNatural History By Carl Zimmer Last year I took part in a talk...

Forbes Magazine: No Transgenic Spider-Goats At The Smithsonian? Welcome To The First Post-Natural History Museum (Originally appeared in Forbes online edition) From the collection of the Smithsonian: Mus musculus domesticus, photo by Center for PostNatural History, 2011....

City Paper: Post-Natural Instinct Photos by Heather Mull. By Bill O'Driscoll Richard Pell's photos, shot in the parking lot of a local Walmart, depict giant pumpkins. The gourds, submitted...

The Magazine: Biological Parents Photo by Stephanie Strasburg Originally published in The Magazine Issue #21 July 18, 2013 By Amanda Giracca One day during his senior year of high school...

Roadside America: Trunkations Review Originally published on Roadside America in March 2012 Finally, A Museum With Glowing Fish And Sea Monkeys Why has art professor Richard Pell opened a...

United Hemispheres: Dispatches Originally published in the August 2014 United Airlines Hemispheres in-flight magazine Exploring the world of weapons-grade goat milk and alcoholic...

A Day in the Life These timelapse videos of ginseng and goldenseal growing were shot in the spring of 2011 using a Canon 5D, Dragon software and a custom camera mount developed...

PostNatural Exhibit at NHMLA Los Angeles County Natural History Museum hosts PostNatural That was then. This is now: PostNatural Nature Exhibition on view February 7 through April 28,...

We Are Nature @ CMNH Six exhibits from the Center for PostNatural History were on loan to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History for the We Are Nature exhibit, which examines the role...

Making Nature Making Nature: How We See Animals 1 December 2016 - 21 May 2017 Wellcome Collection London, UK The question of how humans relate to other animals has...

That was then. This is now. That was then. This is now. was on display at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome as part of the HUMAN+ exhibition. This presentation brings together 5...

Atomic Age Rodents The rodents in this exhibit found their way into the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History via several different paths. Each tells a tale of rodent life,...

PostNatural Organisms of the European Union A collection of organisms deliberately altered by humans, from domesticated pets and agricultural seeds from the Norwegian Svalbard global seed vault, to alcoholic...