Nana Tchitchoua and Tula in the Tula Tea Room. A native of Tbilisi, Georgia, Nana shares the tradition of serving authentic Georgian tea from her homeland on the top floor of the museum. The Tea Room has since expanded to include a rooftop garden and aviary.
Rachel Portenstein in The Garden of Eden on Wheels: Selected Collections from Los Angeles Area Mobile Homes and Trailer Parks. Mobile Home models created by Bridget Marrin.
Anitra Menning with the Voice of the American Gray Fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus). The North American counterpart to the South American crab-eating fox (Cerdocyon thous). This fox is small, about 38 cm (plus tail), weighs about 3 1/4 pounds (1.5 kg), has strikingly beautiful coloration, and usually mates for life.
Cecily amidst a recreation of Geoffrey Sonnabend’s office. An associate professor of neurophysiology at Northwestern University, at Evanston, Illinois, was 48 years old in 1936 when, after an exhaustive and largely inconclusive research project into the memory pathways of carp, he suffered a mental and physical collapse which among other conditions was manifest in a case of pleurisy, for which his physician prescribed a two-week stay in the university hospital as well as an extended period of convalescence.
Dorothy Schultz behind the Athanasius Kircher Exhibit which displays the ideas of the 17th-century Jesuit thinker. Through a viewing apparatus, holograms appear inside each ornately constructed environment, revealing an image that was previously invisible.
