Lila Acheson Wallace, Building

Title: Lila Acheson Wallace, Building
Commemorates: Wallace, Lila Acheson
Biographical Text: Museum wing featuring displays focused on mammals and their extinct relatives. Entrance includes a red banner with white text and graphic of a mammal skeleton.

The wing is a part of the American Museum of Natural History, located on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, NY. It is dedicated to Wallace, co-founder of Reader’s Digest, and located on the fourth floor of the building. Its official opening was in 1994, after a temporary closure of the museum in the 1990s for renovations.
Text: Lila Acheson Wallace Wing
Mammals
and Their Extinct Relatives
Date Created: 1994
Type: English Building; English Museum
Bibliographic Citation: “A Brand-New Hall for Some Very Old Mammals, " The New York Times. May 13, 1994.; American Museum of Natural History, Wikipedia; Hall of Primitive Mammals, The American Museum of Natural History
Project Researcher: O'Neill, Iris

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Lila Acheson Wallace, Building, June 1994

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