M is for Museum, a new exhibition at Carnegie Museum of Natural History is an exciting journey into the behind-the-scenes world of natural history museums
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October 15, 2011–August 30, 2012
Discover how museums help explore and explain nature in all its wonder and the cultures of the world with Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s new exhibition M is for Museum!
Organized around the ABCs, the exhibition is an interactive journey into the world of amazing natural history collections and the scientists who collect, care for, and study them. The experience is a hands-on, multi-sensory learning adventure encouraging curious children, especially 5- to 13-year-olds, to explore what happens behind-the-scenes at one of America’s best natural history museums.
M is for Museum opened October 15, 2011 and will run until August 30, 2012.
In M is for Museum, discover what it’s like to work inside a world-class natural history museum. Role play in various museum settings. Discover, closely investigate, and handle specimens like those collected, studied, and cared for by Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Through interactive audio and video, meet the staff members and scientists who preserve and conduct research in the collections, and learn how and why these people do these important jobs. Make your way through the exhibition and discover how the skills people use every day—looking, drawing, sorting, questioning, considering evidence, and problem solving—are fundamental to scientific research.
There is a station in the exhibition for every letter of the alphabet.
Highlights include:
• C is for Collect. Collections are the backbone of Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Focus on specimens and what people learn from them. Meet the staff members who organize and care for the thousands of birds, millions of bugs, and storerooms full of other specimens. Gather specimens and create a collection of your own for display in M is for Museum.
• F is for Fossil. The museum houses many fossils of plants and animals from millions of years ago. Examine fossils from the museum’s invertebrate and vertebrate paleontology collections. Learn what a fossil is, where they come from, and how they differ from one another.
• L is for Look. Scientists use special tools to get an up-close look at the specimens they are studying. Conduct your own examinations using hand lenses and special microscopes. Look at specimens from the museum's collections including snail shells, bird wings, bones, insects, plants, and fossils.
• P is for Powdermill Nature Reserve. At Powdermill Nature Reserve, the environmental research station of Carnegie Museum of Natural History, migratory birds are weighed, measured, and banded, where a small ring-like band with identification numbers is placed on the ankle of each bird. Here you can band a replica bird and collect data by weighing, measuring, and examining your bird.
• Z is for the Zone. The Zone is a kids’ play area. Put on a puppet show, read a book, or take a close look at some of your favorite animals in the Zone!
Find out more by visiting the Carnegie Museum website!
There's something for everyone!
You can win a family 4-pack of Admission tickets to visit the museum and M is for Museum exhibit. (Valid through the run of the exhibition, August 30, 2012) Just enter your name and email in the comments section, and you're entered!
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