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  Installation view, Tanzania
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  Site of Footprint, Tanzania
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  Footprint detail, Tanzania

Client: The Getty Conservation Institute

Curatorial Assistance created interpretive information and designed, produced and installed the exhibit in Tanzania. The exhibits at the center focus on the paleoanthropological research and artifacts that have come from the surrounding area. Research for the project included consulting with the National Geographic Society, the American Museum of Natural History, New York, the Museum of Man, Paris, and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. The Getty Conservation Institute worked for many years in Tanzania, Africa, on the conservation of the Laetoli trackway discovered by anthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey. The trackway, world renowned for the oldest impressions of bipedal hominids and dated at over three million years B.C., is located along a geological ridge forty miles from the Olduvai Gorge. The Olduvai Gorge Interpretive Center, founded in the late 1970s and managed by the Tanzanian Government's Department of Cultural Antiquities, contracted the J. Paul Getty Museum's Department of Conservation to renovate and expand the center.