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NHM visitors fall in love all the time. To encourage amorous attachment, we’ve chosen more than 250 Objects of Affection from our NHM Next galleries and gardens to offer for sponsorship.
They range from the California bush snapdragon, which will attract hummingbirds to the North Campus, to a 55-million-year-old ancestral lemur in Age of Mammals. Priced from $1,000 - $250,000, funds will support NHM ongoing programs including free school visits. Gifts below $1,000 celebrate the finding, sorting, and conserving of NHM collections. Be recognized in the Grand Foyer, or on our website, as an NHM donor. But make haste! Don’t suffer the heartbreak of your Object of Affection running off with someone else.
Your gift will be used to support ongoing programs at NHM including:
A campaign to reinvent the Natural History Museum as a 21st Century Museum.
Field Collector
Scientists and historians explore nature and culture all over the world, then bring findings back to NHM.
Your gift will be recognized on this website in a listing with other donors at this level.
Specimen Sorter
These scientists and historians sort, conserve, and curate the objects and specimens that come into NHM.
Your gift will be recognized on this website in a listing with other donors at this level.
Collections Keeper
Our collections staff is charged with preserving our treasures–3.5 million growing–in perpetuity.
Your gift will be recognized on this website and in a listing of other donors at this level on a digital display in the Grand Foyer.
St. Catherine's Lace 3: Oh Holy Bush
The large, white flowery bush inspires wedding dresses, tablecloths, and doilies.
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North Campus
Your gift will be recognized on this website and on a digital display in the Grand Foyer featuring your name, a photo of your object, and your "object love letter."
Corythosaurus Skin Impression 2
This remarkably-preserved specimen reveals the look and texture of a 76-74 million year old hadrosaur.
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Dinosaur Hall
Your gift will be recognized on this website and on a digital display in the Grand Foyer featuring your name, a photo of your object, and your "object love letter."
Norris' Sand Dollar: Topanga Canyon Beauty
This extinct sand dollar lived in soft sand, where it orientated its body with the currents to filter feed.
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Age of Mammals
This object is in honor of:
Dirk de Roos
"This gift is for my husband, Dirk. This sand dollar reminds me of our many walks on the beach together which are some of the happiest memories of my life. "
Dire Wolf Skull: The Tar Pits' Favorite
Dire wolves are the most abundant large large animal fossils from the La Brea Tar Pits!
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Age of Mammals
Your gift will be recognized on this website and on a digital display in the Grand Foyer featuring your name, a photo of your object, and your "object love letter."
K-T Block: A Moment in Time
The K-T extinction event—a.k.a. the end of the Age of Dinosaurs—is captured in this remarkable rock slab.
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Dinosaur Hall
Your gift will be recognized with a permanent gallery plaque near your object and on a digital display in the Grand Foyer featuring your "object love letter."
Ornithopod Finger Bone: You're Handy
It’s fossils like this that indicate birds evolved from, and are still a part of, the therapod dinosaurs.
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Dinosaur Hall
Your gift will be recognized on this website and on a digital display in the Grand Foyer featuring your name, a photo of your object, and your "object love letter."
Zither: Come Hither
This stringed musical instrument is played by plucking the strings while it lays flat.
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Becoming Los Angeles
This object is in honor of:
The Dennis Kee Family
"We love being part of the NHM family."
Flannel Bush 2: A Model Bloomer
The 10-foot-tall beauty's yellow-orange flower ensemble suits our chic, urban wilderness runway.
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North Campus
Your gift will be recognized on this website and on a digital display in the Grand Foyer featuring your name, a photo of your object, and your "object love letter."
American Mastodon Foot: Walking in L.A.
The cast of a La Brea Tar Pits fossil shows how these creatures walked — on their toes, like modern elephants.
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Age of Mammals
This object has been sponsored by:
The Diamond Family
California Lilac 1: Hold the Water
This blue-flowered survivor is as pretty as she is tough—she can weather drought and grow to 15 feet.
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North Campus
This object has been sponsored by:
James and Susan Carr
"The lilac's fragrance is unforgettable, the clusters are perfectly shaped and it is a precious natural resource just as the Natural History Museum is."
Primitive Dolphin Skull: Real Fossils of Orange County
This 15-million-year-old Laguna Hills specimen represents an ancient relative of modern dolphins!
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Age of Mammals
Your gift will be recognized on this website and on a digital display in the Grand Foyer featuring your name, a photo of your object, and your "object love letter."
Door Squeak Device: Open the Door to Hollywood
Movie makers used this creeeeaky noisemaker when they wanted to sonically creep everyone out.
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Rotunda
Your gift will be recognized on this website and on a digital display in the Grand Foyer featuring your name, a photo of your object, and your "object love letter."
Branding Iron: Rancho la Ballona
This ranch is the namesake of today's Ballona Creek. The "T" designates early Angeleno Leonardo Talamantes.
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Becoming Los Angeles
This object is in memory of:
Michael Joseph Kuhl
"In memory of our son Michael and his love of California History. "
Thescelosaurus Vertebra: The Little Vegetarian
In addition to this backbone, there is also a full mount of this small herbivore in our new Dinosaur Hall.
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Dinosaur Hall
Your gift will be recognized on this website and on a digital display in the Grand Foyer featuring your name, a photo of your object, and your "object love letter."
Extinct Viperfish: You Shiny Little Flirt
Bioluminescent pores along this little guy's sides emitted light that may have attracted a mate!
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Age of Mammals
This object has been sponsored by:
Mmes. Peri and Peg Urvek
Ancient Whale's Last Meal: Fossil Stomach Bolus
This fish dinner from more than 42 million years ago was found in an abandoned cotton field in Mississippi!
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Age of Mammals
Your gift will be recognized on this website and on a digital display in the Grand Foyer featuring your name, a photo of your object, and your "object love letter."
Morenosaur Gastrolith: A Sea Monster Mystery!
Stones in this ancient sea reptile's belly are thought to be for either grinding food, or ballast for diving.
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Dinosaur Hall
Your gift will be recognized on this website and on a digital display in the Grand Foyer featuring your name, a photo of your object, and your "object love letter."
Extinct Marten Jaw: Pop Goes the Weasel
Martens are small tree-dwelling predators related to weasels. This one lived in nearby Red Rock Canyon.
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Age of Mammals
Your gift will be recognized on this website and on a digital display in the Grand Foyer featuring your name, a photo of your object, and your "object love letter."
Branding Iron: Maria Verdugo
The Verdugo family was an important Mexican family in early L.A., and their name demarcates many streets and ranches today.
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Becoming Los Angeles
This object has been sponsored by:
Thomas Bliss and Merrily Weiss
"This object grounds us to the San Fernando Valley and San Gabriel Valley lands where we came of age, as did many other cultures before us."
Mountain Mahogany 2
Early Native Americans used the hard, twisted wood and bark to brew medicinal teas and whittle spearheads and bows.
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North Campus
Your gift will be recognized on this website and on a digital display in the Grand Foyer featuring your name, a photo of your object, and your "object love letter."
Nodosaur Armor Plating: T. rex Protective Gear
This "dermal scute" comes from the back of an armored dinosaur, and kept predators like the T. rex at bay.
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Dinosaur Hall
Your gift will be recognized on this website and on a digital display in the Grand Foyer featuring your name, a photo of your object, and your "object love letter."
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