Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- Prop amber used in the 1993 film Jurassic Park. In the film, scientist and entrepreneurs open a wildlife theme park and preserve and use cutting edge genetics to breed and grow dinosaurs, which escape and cause havoc in the park. The ancient mosquito encased in amber and the dinosaur blood the mosquito would have sucked on, became an early source of DNA that is spliced and cloned to eventually breed a real dinosaur.
- Although fictional, the film brought to life the rapid advances of genetic sciences but also stoked the publics fear of what this new science, if kept unchecked, would have on the world.
- Credit Line
- Gift of MCA, Universal City Studios, Inc.
- 1993
- ID Number
- 1993.0428.01
- catalog number
- 1993.0428.01
- accession number
- 1993.0428
- Object Name
- Synthetic Amber
- Physical Description
- resin (overall material)
- plaster (overall material)
- resin, plastic, paint, plastic (overall material)
- molded (overall production method/technique)
- geoligcal (overall shape)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 5.1 cm x 7.6 cm x 14.6 cm; 2 in x 3 in x 5 3/4 in
- overall: 5 3/4 in x 3 in x 2 in; 14.605 cm x 7.62 cm x 5.08 cm
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
- Exhibition
- Entertainment Nation
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Motion Pictures
- Record ID
- nmah_1165098
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-fc53-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
