ShowCaveBlog

At the moment there is an exhibition at the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (Museum of Natural History of Vienna), organized by the Cave and Karst Department. It is called Höhlen – Landschaften ohne Licht (Caves-Landscapes Without Light) and show the cave images of the most famous cave photographers. The exhibition shows stalactites and stalagmites, interactive installations, short presentatiosn of current research projects, an audiovisual room, an introduction into the drinking water system of Vienna, and an overview of the 28 show caves of Austria.

The exhibition was opened 29-SEP-2010 and will end in summer 2012.

• Naturhistorisches Museum Wien – sonderausstellungen – höhlen – landschaften ohne licht
  (visited: 27-MAR-2011)
• Naturhistorisches Museum – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  (visited: 27-MAR-2011)

In May a 3D photo exhibition with the name Underground of Enchantment will open at the Carlsbad Museum and Art Center. It shows 3d pictures of Lechuguilla Cave, located in the Carlsbad Caverns National Park. Many of the photographs are from David De Roest, a Belgian photographer who specializes in 3D images. But there are also pictures of microbiologists working on discoveries from the cave as well as photographs from other caves.

Underground of Enchantment will open Saturday 07-MAY-2011, at the Carlsbad Museum and Art Center and will run through the summer. In autumn the exhibit will travel around New Mexico, Colorado and West Texas for 10 months. During summer 2012 the exhibit will be shown in the Visitor Center of Carlsbad Caverns National Park.

• Underground of Enchantment – Lechuguilla Cave
  (visited: 27-MAR-2011)
• States of the United States of America: Carlsbad Caverns National Park
  (visited: 27-MAR-2011)
• Caves of the United States of America: Lechuguilla
  (visited: 27-MAR-2011)

The Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., shows an exhibtion called In the Dark. The topiy of this exhibition is live in dark habitat. Obviously caves are an important dark habitat, and so there is a impressive part of the exhibition called Darkness Deep within Caves.
The cave display includes the replica of a Kentucky limestone cave where visitors can walk through. There is a diorama of the famous Movile Cave in Romania. Those highlights are completed by detailed information on cvae formatuion, cave habitat, troglomorphism and so forth.
At Fernbank’s IMAX® Theatre the movie Journey Into Amazing Caves will be showing while the exhibition is open. This is a great introduction into the beauty and variety of caves. The film explores karst caves in the walls of the Grand Canyon, ice caves in the glaciers of Greenland and water filled karst caves beneath Yucatan.

In the Dark is a traveling exhibit produced by the Cincinnati Museum Center.

When: 09-FEB-2008 to 04-MAR-2008
Where: Fernbank Museum of Natural History, 767 Clifton Road, Atlanta
Fee: Adults USD 15, Students USD 14, Seniors USD 14, Children (3-12) USD 13.
More: The Weekly Online!

This is so impressive, a beautiful underground place, so we had to write about it. Unfortunately it is not open for the public. So we decided to give at least a glimpse of it on the blog.

Norman and Norah Stone from San Fransisco are obviously very rich, and – among art aficionados – famous collectors of modern art. It seems they still had several millions of dollars after they spent a fortune on modern art, did not really know what to do with this money, and so they burned it by building a private art museum, not open to the public. Changing exhibitions reflect the continually growing collection of the couple.
However, we are more interested in the fact that the whole structure is located underground, inside one of the numerous caves in Napa Valley, California. Generally the caves are used for the Californian wine, which is grown in the valley. But this cave is dedicated to art. The Stones hired three young New York architects – Tim Bade, Jane Stageberg and Martin Cox, of Bade Stageberg Cox. The only thing visible from the surface is the entrance and the exit, both framed in Cor-Ten steel which will soon rust and become almost invisible. The inside has a size of 540m² and  consists  of a  35m long main hall with several smaller rooms branching off. The underground museum  is called stonescape.

The cave is located at the weekend home of the couple, a 70,000m² property, with a modest 1887 farmhouse, a vineyard, a stand of redwood trees, a sculpture by Cady Noland, and a pool and pavilion designed the artist James Turrell and the architect Jim Jennings.

• Art collector couple builds museum-size cave in Napa for collection
• Insider Art

St Michael’s Cave is a nice show cave located on Gibraltar, inside the famous rock where apes live outside. It has one huge chamber, which is developed as a sort of concert hall.

On Friday 9th September, as part of the National Week celebrations, Marillion singer Steve Hogarth will be performing in the cave. Steve Hogarth, better known as “H”, is the lead singer of Marillion since 1989. But it will not be a Marillion concert, Hogart will perform solo. It will be a sort of unplugged concert, named “H Natural”, as Hogart will be accompanied only by a piano.

The concert is organized by the Ministry of Culture, Word of Mouth Concerts, and Gibtelecom. They hope it will be a success and be followed by a Marillion concert next year.

‘H’ in the cave as part of National Week

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in cooperation with the National Speleological Society created an exhibition called Caves – A Fragile Wilderness. This traveling exhibit is on display at the Kansas City Public Library from 04-FEB-2006 to 12-MAR-2006. You will find it at the Guldner Gallery of the Central Library, 14 West 10th Street, Kansas City, MO 64105, U.S.A..

The exhibition includes 39 color photographs from caves between Alaska and Malaysia, all were taken by NSS members.

Exhibits and Programs at Central Library

Image: Cave Bears from the Zoolithenhöhle. This is part of the exhibition at Pommelsbrunn.

The small Heimatmuseum (ethnological museum) of Pommelsbrunn in Frankonia, Germany, opened a new exhibition on cave bears yesterday. The reason why this happened here is easy: this is the area where the unicorn bones first were recognized as the bones of an extinct bear.
The man who did this was Rosenmüller, thats why the full scientific name of the cave bear is Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller 1794.

The Heimatmuseum Pommelsbrunn is open every Sunday 10-17, the exhibition will be here until end of February 2006.