Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016 – Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017
How much food do you eat in a day? In a week? If you had to put all your food together on a table for a week, how much space would that take up?
Join The Health Museum for Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, depicting families from around the world and exploring human kind’s oldest social activity: eating.
Photographer Peter Menzel and author Faith D’Aluisio spent time with the families as they farmed, shopped, cooked and ate. At the end of each visit, they created a portrait of the family surrounded by a week’s worth of their groceries. The goal of the project and books is to help people see the world in a broader context and provide the means for comparing oneself to others.
The Hungry Planet: What the World Eats exhibition is an expanded version of Menzel and D’Auisio’s original project, and features fifteen families from twelve countries. Each section shows how the family acquires their food and prepares it according to the related cultural traditions. The centerpiece is a family portrait with members gathered around a still life display of a week’s worth of groceries. The exhibition also offers insights into each country’s nutrition and health along with the impact that poverty, conflict, and globalization may have had.
About the Exhibition
The photo exhibition has previously displayed at COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food, and the Arts, Napa; Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago; Exploris Kids Museum, Raleigh; Museum of the African Disapora, San Francisco; and COSI, Columbus.
About the Photographer and Author
Peter Menzel is a photographer known for his coverage of international feature stories on science and the environment. His award-winning photographs have been published in Life, National Geographic, Smithsonian, the New York Times Magazine, Time, Stern, and GEO. He has received a number of World Press and Picture of the Year awards.
Faith D’Aluisio is a former television news producer whose work received awards from the Associated Press and the United Press International. The editor and lead writer for the Material World book series, she received the James Beard Foundation Award in 1999 for Best Book, Reference and Writing on Food for Man Eating Bugs.
Menzel and D’Aluisio are the co-creators of the books Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, Material World: A Global Family Portrait, and Women in the Material World. They are also the co-authors of Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects, and Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species.
They live in Napa, California, and are the parents of four adult sons: Josh, Jack, Adam and Evan.
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Monday - Saturday, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 9:00 am - 7:00 pm
Sunday, 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Special exhibits may require an additional fee - General Admission: $10 per adult; $8 per child (ages 3-12); $8 per senior (ages 65+); Free for members and children under 2 yrs. Free Hours: Free Family Thursdays 2 - 7 pm.
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- Parking for Museum visitors is $5. Parking for non-Museum visitors is $8. Parking for Museum members is $3. Enter the parking lot from Hermann Dr. Metered street parking is available on streets surrounding the Museum.
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