Museum of Natural History Typography

A lit­tle while back we spent a rainy Saturday at the Museum of Natural History here in New York. I had never been so I was excited to explore the cav­ernous space and all of its impres­sive exhibits. But what I was sur­prised to find was a gold­mine of vin­tage typog­ra­phy. Here’s a few shots of what I saw.

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This entry was written by Courtney, posted on May 13, 2011 at 10:00 am, filed under NYC and tagged . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

5 Comments

  1. Charlie Williamson ¶
    Posted May 13, 2011 at 10:43 am | Permalink

    Classic. Love it.

  2. Allison
    Posted May 13, 2011 at 12:14 pm | Permalink

    Wonderful! We went to NYC for our hon­ey­moon and stopped into the museum. My hus­band was enthralled by the exhibits while I tried to absorb as much of the fab­u­lous type as I could.

  3. ian shimkoviak
    Posted May 13, 2011 at 1:59 pm | Permalink

    beau­ti­ful pho­tog­ra­phy as well. As a kid I obvi­ously never noticed the type “spec­i­mens” at the MoNH in NYC, but now I have another rea­son to return — great post and eye.

  4. Katherine
    Posted May 13, 2011 at 6:11 pm | Permalink

    Yes yes yes! I took so many pic­tures of the type last time I was there! The sat­u­rated col­ors in your pho­tos are lovely, too. It’s like walk­ing through a Wes Anderson movie.

  5. jen
    Posted May 15, 2011 at 11:05 am | Permalink

    oh, thanks for the trip down mem­ory lane! i worked there for six years and these exhibits are so famil­iar to me. great obser­va­tions on the typograpy.

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