Thursday, January 27, 2022

The Alfred Glassell Hall at the HMNS



A longtime resident of Houston, Texas, Joel A. Bartsch holds a master's degree in history and history of science from Rice University. Joel A. Bartsch leverages his extensive expertise in the museum sector to inform his role as president and CEO of the Houston Museum of Natural Science (HMNS).

A Houston businessman captured the world's largest black marlin, weighing in at 1560 pounds, on August 4th, 1953. Film director Francis Ford Coppola utilized footage of the capture in his 1958 film The Old Man and the Sea, which starred Spencer Tracy. The fisherman, Alfred Glassell, Jr., was also a well-known philanthropist. He devoted a significant portion of his time to the conservation of large game fish species. Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Hall at HMNS is named after him.

Black marlin, the species that set a world record, is featured at HMNS' Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Hall. Over 40 game fish specimens from over a dozen different species were on display. The majority of these were brought from the coast of Cabo Blanco in Peru.

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