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Table 1 Classification of fossil horse exhibits and museums included in the study

From: Fossil Horses, Orthogenesis, and Communicating Evolution in Museums

Museum State Number of displays Pattern of depiction Yearly attendance
University of Nebraska State Museum NE 1 O 86,182
Field Museum of Natural History IL 2 O 1,212,475
Harvard Museum of Natural History MA 1 O 150,000
U.S. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution DC 1 O 5,542,000
Darwin (traveling exhibita) N/A 2 O N/A
Amherst College, Beneski Museum of Natural History MA 1 O 25,000
Kansas University Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center KS 2 O 46,000
American Museum of Natural History NY 1 O 4,000,000
Carnegie Museum of Natural History PA 1 PO 497,000
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County CA 1 PO 650,000
Peabody Museum of Natural History CT 4 PO 145,000
International Museum of the Horse KY 2 M 200,000
University of Michigan Museum of Natural History MI 2 M 7,000
University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History OR 4 M 200,000
University of California Museum of Paleontology-Berkeley CA 2 M b
Florida Museum of Natural History FL 3 PB 275,000
Denver Museum of Nature and Science CO 1 PB 1,252,300
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History CA 1 PB 110,000
The Horse (traveling exhibita) N/A 1 B N/A
Panhandle Plains Historical Museum TX 3 B 75,000
Total summed yearly attendance 14,472,957
  1. The attendance figures for each museum were taken from AAM (2007). The cumulative attendance figures for the two travelling exhibits were not available (n/a), and those for the three Web exhibits are not reported
  2. O orthogenetic, PO primarily orthogenetic, M mixed (equally orthogenetic and branching), PB primarily branching, B branching
  3. aDeveloped by The American Museum of Natural History, New York
  4. b1.2 million Web visitors per month according to University of California at Berkeley; not included in total summed yearly attendance