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"Hong Kong Garden" by English goth punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees

Siouxsie & the Banshees - Hong Kong Garden - Revolver (ATV 1978)

Today’s Exhibit of the Day is a blast from the past! Snapped in 1938, this archival image depicts Museum preparators sculpting a model Styracosaurus. This large ceratopsian dinosaur was related to Triceratops. However, unlike its three-horned cousin, Styracosaurus had a singular nasal horn. It also possessed huge spikes on its frill—the bony collar that projects rearward from the skull. The model pictured here isn't on display today, but Styracosaurus fans can spot a fossil skeleton in the Hall of Ornithischian Dinosaurs.

This Fossil Friday, meet the Warren mastodon: the first complete American mastodon (Mammut americanum) skeleton found in the United States! This fossilized proboscidean was discovered in a bog in Newburgh, New York in 1845. It was remarkable for being preserved in the position in which it had died some 11,000 years ago—standing upright with its legs thrust forward and its head tilted upward, likely gasping for air under mud in which it had become mired. Today, you can find this mastodon—tusks and all—in the Museum’s Hall of Advanced Mammals. . 

Two Wolves, Laura Makabresku, 2026

Nancy Spungen and Sid Vicious pose in their apartment in Pindock Mews, London, on August 14, 1978.

It was likely a party to celebrate their impending departure from England.

Photo by Watal Asanuma

Generation X in London, August 9, 1977, as documented by Ray Stevenson

The first photograph of the Sex Pistols (Johnny Rotten, Glen Matlock, Steve Jones, and Paul Cook) in the backyard of a pub where they rehearsed in Chiswick, London, in August/September 1975.