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Updated Wednesday -Aug 11 2010

- What's New! -

 •Expedition Photographic Backtracing is underway!

The Photographic Backtracing 2010 expedition, lead by photographer and journalist Jan Svatoš left on August 5 to recreate some of Martin and Osa Johnson's most difficult photographic achievements.  Jan and his team plan to photograph Africa in the difficult terrain of North Kenya using outdated analogue technology, including the classic film development process. The expedition wishes to establish whether modern-day man, used to the simple use of modern technology, is at all capable of taking photographs of the real Africa using outdated photographic and film cameras and whether he is capable of perceiving nature as sensitively as photographic pioneers like Martin and Osa Johnson once did.  

As well as analogue equipment, the expedition will also use modern digital technology. The purpose is not to place these two photographic methods in competition, but more to point out how each of them influences the photographer’s work and thought processes in the field and also what photography has achieved on this continent throughout the nearly 100 years of its development.

On Sunday, the expedition team traveled for 10 hours and 4000 miles to get to Nairobi. When Martin and Osa Johnson went to Africa to capture its wildlife on camera, it took them 40 days on a ship from the USA.  Keep track of the Expedition Photographic Backtracing expedition on http://africaobscura.com  or on their Facebook Fan page at: http://www.facebook.com/africaobscura.

 

 

•Osa’s Ark to Make Historic Transatlantic Flight!

 

 An S-38 Sikorsky Amphibian "restored replica" of Martin and Osa Johnsons famous zebra striped S-38 “Flying Boat” and designed using photos of the original plane in the Safari Museum ’s archives is poised to make aviation history!  

We'll have a webpage up soon here with the story of this amazing plane and her coming Trans-Atlantic flight.  Real time tracking of the new Osa’s Ark ’s progress across the Atlantic will be available at www.unlimitedadventure.com starting Aug 21st.

 

•70 JOHNSON PHOTOS NOW AVAILABLE!

 

 

 

•Want a Sneak Peak at some of Martin and Osa's most famous films?  
Click on the poster below to watch film excerpts on Youtube:

 

These films and more can be purchased in our  Osa's Ark Museum Shop !   

 

•SAFARI DVD SET!

 

  • 6 DVD SAFARI FILM SET! Just $44.95

    •  DVD Format, Zone Free, Available

  • 4 Johnson films (SIMBA CONGORILLA BABOONA I MARRIED ADVENTURE) plus a bonus of 2 more early African Films in one collection SET!.$44.95 
  • CLICK Browse to preview or buy!


 

 

 

Martin and Osa Johnson’s

100TH Wedding Anniversary Celebration  

Held April 10, 201o 

 Thank you all for making this a great fundraiser and a wonderful celebration of Martin and Osa's remarkable married adventure!

Gala 2011 on June 11 will celebrate 
the 50th Anniversary of the opening of this museum!

Lot's of thrilling events will be planned around the anniversary so please keep checking here for updates and to see how you can join the adventure!

 
 Can't make the 2011 Gala Fundraiser, but would like to support the museum today?

If you wish to make a contribution, please print out our support form and send with your donation to:

Safari Museum
111 N. Lincoln Avenue
Chanute, KS 66720

 

 

•SPIRIT OF BORNEO:  The first Photobook dedicated to the life and legacy of Martin and Osa Johnson was launched at a grand affair in Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia on October 19, 2009!

 

Details about our partnership on this historic book and updates on many other Safari Museum heritage and conservation projects in Bornean Malaysia will be in the next Wait-A-Bit news and thereafter posted online so keep checking back here!

 

Spirit of Borneo Book Launch, October 19, 2009 Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia

 

SAFARI in SANDAKAN
A new Martin and Osa Johnson 
Exhibition Open in Sabah, Malaysia!  

  


• The Safari Continues!  To read about a new exhibition that we and our sister museum, The Sabah Museum, designed to honor the wildlife achievements of Martin and Osa Johnson and see how you can help keep the adventure alive, please click here.  

 

• Married To Adventure: 
Photographs From the Travels of Martin and Osa Johnson

This traveling is currently available!

To learn more about this exhibition, and ways you could bring it to host sites and special events in your own communities, please call the museum at 620-431-2730!  

70 JOHNSON PRINTS FROM THIS EXHIBITION NOW AVAILABLE!

 

 

 

BOOK MAKES OSA A COVERGIRL!

•Women Travelers


Osa Johnson graces the cover of yet another book...and her amazing life story is told inside!  

Check the Safari Store in the Featured Item Section for more details on this amazing new book!   

 •Johnson Movie Posters Now Available!
 

 •Johnson Feature Films on DVD!

 
 
Six of Martin and Osa's films are now available through our Osa's Ark Museum Store in both NSTC (US & Canada) and PAL (Britain & UK) formats.  We have just added ACROSS THE WORLD WITH MR. and MRS. JOHNSON and also an amazing bonus DVD that includes interviews with Robert "DICK" Douglas, one of the three Boyscouts who accompanied Martin and Osa Johnson to Africa and star in ACROSS THE WORLD.  Please check the Safari Store for more details and to purchase your own copies!   

 

• Seeking Adventure? Sign-up Here Today ! 
  
Volunteers play a vital role at this unique non-profit historical and multicultural education organization!   Applications for volunteers are available year-round at the museum front desk or via email for tour guides, outreach docents, library volunteers, office and archival assistants.
 We have immediate openings for Front Desk Greeters and Museum Store Sales Clerks.
Men and women of all ages and backgrounds who enjoy working with the general public—both children and adults—are encouraged to apply.


•  Safari Film Fest 2011 


    
 Cinematic Thrills!

April 29-30, 2011!
Please check our April Schedule of Adventures to see updates and details about our annual Safari Museum Film Festival!

The museum's annual event is funded in part by the Kansas Humanities Council, a nonprofit cultural organization promoting understanding of the history, traditions, and ideas that shape our lives and build community.  

To learn more about KHC and the valuable programs they support, please click here.

 

 

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