Related person Ellen Futter

Paperweight

2000

Place madeIsrael, Asia

Glass

Overall: 3 × 3 × 3 in. (7.6 × 7.6 × 7.6 cm)

Gift of Ellen V. Futter, President of the American Museum of Natural History

2001.218a-c

This paperweight depicts the Rose Center for Earth and Space, a spherical planetarium enclosed in a mullionless 6-story cube with tension-supported glass curtain walls. Designed by James Stewart Polshek, the high-tech museum and planetarium facility opened in 2000. The paperweight was donated by Ellen V. Futter, president of the American Museum of Natural History since 1993.

DescriptionCube-shaped glass paperweight with etched interior depicting the Frederick Phineas & Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History, showing nine planets and the sun; in original cardboard box with foam padding.

Markingsprinted: on label on underside of box: "Made in Israel" etched: in paperweight: "AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY" and "FREDERICK PHINEAS & SANDRA PRIEST ROSE CENTER FOR EARTH AND SPACE"

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