Michael C. Rockefeller, son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, disappeared in 1961 while on an expedition in New Guinea His body was never found and the story of his disappearance remains ...

Michael C. Rockefeller in New Guinea in 1961 "We were in the same crib until we were about 2½, and Michael, the adventurous one, climbed out. Michael was very inquisitive and independent.

On Nov. 19, 1961, Michael C. Rockefeller, 23, a son of then-New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, vanished off the coast of New Guinea. An heir to the Rockefeller oil fortune, he'd traveled there as ...

Michael Rockefeller's life and mysterious death, allegedly at the hands of cannibals, have recaptured the imagination of New York with the reopening of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing of the ...

The Ceremonial House Ceiling, made by Kwoma artists of Papua New Guinea, has returned to view in the museum’s renovated Michael C. Rockefeller Wing. by Maya Pontone June 3, 2025 June 3, 2025 ...

It was named after Rockefeller’s son Michael C. Rockefeller, an ethnologist who died at age 23 on a 1961 expedition to New Guinea studying the culture of the indigenous Asmat people.

After closing in 2021, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing finally reopens to the public today, following a $70 million renovation. The series of galleries comprising the wing ...

It was named after Nelson’s son, Michael C. Rockefeller, a young anthropologist who died after his boat capsized in New Guinea in 1961, when he was just 23.

Rockefeller, the youngest son of then-New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, never returned from that trip to a continent 9,000 miles away. Michael Rockefeller disappeared on Nov. 19, 1961, after ...