Museum of Animal Perspectives
In 2009, Sam Easterson opened the Museum of Animal Perspectives (M.A.P.), a virtual museum that collects and displays wildlife imagery that has been captured using remote sensing cameras in the animal’s natural habitat. This innovative process allows humans to see the environment from the animal’s point of view.

M.A.P. is located at sameasterson.com, as well as at satellite locations, such as The New Children’s Museum. For NCM, Easterson has selected footage from recordings of 30 different animals. Easterson hopes visitors will encounter the animals much like they do in nature—by chance. The videos are grouped on each of the Museum’s three floors according to the three stratums of animal habitat—aerial, terrestrial, and subterranean. Through presentation of this “first animal perspective” M.A.P. endeavors to expand the public’s capacity to empathize with animals. As Easterson explains: “I seek to encourage visitors to step out of themselves—and imagine a life other than their own.”

About Sam Easterson
Citing a long-standing fascination with nature as his inspiration, Los Angeles-based artist Sam Easterson has found his source material in wildlife for over ten years. In 2009, Sam Easterson opened the Museum of Animal Perspectives (M.A.P.). The Museum of Animal Perspectives collects and displays wildlife imagery that has been captured using remote sensing cameras. Through the presentation of this imagery, the Museum of Animal Perspectives endeavors to expand the public’s capacity to empathize with animals and plants. Easterson earned his BFA from The Cooper Union in New York City and an MS in Landscape Architecture from the University of Minnesota, MN. His videos have been featured at major museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, MA, in addition to film festivals like the World Wide Video Festival in Amsterdam; Sydney Film Festival; and European Media Festival in Osnabrück, Germany. Easterson has won awards from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York; the Creative Capital Foundation, New York; the Peter S. Reed Foundation, New York; and the Margaret Hall Silva Foundation, Kansas City, MO.

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