September 15th, 2009 at 2:07 pm » Comments (0)

Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God’s Wife, will give a lecture on September 23 as part of the National Geographic Live! Traveler series. Topics ...more »

February 19th, 2009 at 12:50 pm » Comments (0)

British explorer Percy Fawcett was one of the last of the "gentleman explorers." New Yorker writer David Gann will discuss his new book about Fawcett, The Lost City of Z: ...more »

February 17th, 2009 at 10:23 am » Comments (0)

The National Geographic museum is hosting a sushi and sake tasting event on April 1st. The featured speakers are: Trevor Corson, author of The Story of Sushi and America’s only ...more »

February 2nd, 2009 at 1:54 pm » Comments (0)

Abigail Washburn will be playing at the National Geographic Museum auditorium on February 10th. From what I read about Washburn today, her clawhammer banjo performances blend old-time music with Chinese ...more »

October 17th, 2008 at 7:09 am » Comments (0)

In conjunction with their current exhibit on New Zealand and whales, the National Geographic Museum is offering a free lecture tonight by Derek Lardelli. Lardelli is a well-known tā moko ...more »

October 16th, 2008 at 12:24 pm » Comments (0)

The National Geographic Museum will be hosting an exhibit from the New Zealand Te Papa Museum discussing the biology and cultural significance of whales. "Whales/ Tohorā" features a life-sized blue ...more »