Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture

The Burke Museum is referenced in this article about the fascinating process of how spider webs are made.

In addition to celebrating our graduates this week, attend several museum exhibitions, watch recorded events through ArtsUW On Demand, and more.

This week at the UW, attend exhibitions at the Burke Museum and the Henry Art Gallery, and watch events on ArtsUW On Demand.

Paleontologist Stan Mallory and archaeologist Robert Greengo from Seattle's Burke Museum are mentioned in this story about the giant sloth skeleton discovered near a runway at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in 1961.

This week at the UW, attend a meditation session, attend Curating in Conversation: A Panel Series on Sharing Northwest Native Art and Art History with the Public, and more.

Artist Alison O. Bremner, whose work is in the permanent collections of the Burke Museum, is featured in this article about her work.

This week at the UW, attend talks about museum curation and the history of the Pacific Northwest, visit the Burke Museum, and more.

The new Burke Museum exhibit, 'Cruisin' the Fossil Coastline,' "creates a dynamic atmosphere of wonder and imagination."

This week at the UW, attend the final lecture in the Protest, Race, and Citizenship Across African Worlds series, UW Dance Presents, and more.

Kirk Johnson, paleontologist at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and co-curator of the UW Burke Museum’s new exhibit “Cruisin’ the Fossil Coastline,” describes fellow curator and artist Ray Troll’s images as “extinct animals [that] visit the modern world in daydreams.” This innovative, family-friendly exhibition is at the Burke Museum for all of March and April.

This week at the UW, join music history Professor Dr. Anne Searcy for a lecture about the dance of Hamilton, and visit UW museums that have recently reopened.

Jawbones and an assortment of teeth found in the Hell’s Creek formation of northeastern Montana are the oldest primate fossils ever discovered, according to newly published research. Gregory Wilson Mantilla, Burke Museum curator of vertebrate paleontology and professor of biology at the UW, is quoted.

In a new study, a team of paleontologists analyzed tooth samples found in Montana and determined plesiadapiforms, an ancient taxon including primates’ oldest ancestor, likely emerged 65.9 million-years-ago and lived alongside dinosaurs. Gregory Wilson Mantilla, Burke Museum curator of vertebrate paleontology and professor of biology at the UW, is quoted.

Gregory Wilson Mantilla, professor of biology and curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture, has co-led a new study analyzing several fossils of the earliest-known primates.

The shapes of fossilized teeth from 65.9 million-year-old, squirrel-like creatures suggest that the branch of the tree of life that gave rise to humans and other primates flowered while dinosaurs still walked the earth. The UW’s Gregory Wilson Mantilla, Burke Museum curator of vertebrate paleontology and professor of biology, and Brody Hovatter, a graduate student in Earth and space sciences, are quoted.