The museum has live plants and animals in a garden just outside the main building and an indoor nature laboratory. Kristin Friedrich says this is different from what visitors expect to find at a natural history museum.
“Traditionally, the natural history museum is a 19th century model. Back then, you would put dead things in a cabinet and you would have a text panel and people would walk around and look in very dark halls.”
She says natural history museums are reinventing themselves, exploring ideas like conservation and humans’ effect on the environment.
Tim Waters says he likes the museum.
“This whole exhibit was an on-going history, and so it’s giving us not just an ancient history but our place and how we form history.”
His 8-year-old son Wyatt likes some of the older exhibits.
“I think the dinosaur exhibit is a little bit more interesting than this exhibit.”
Do not fear, Wyatt. The ancient creatures are not going away -- they are just sharing the museum with newer animals.
Best Hit Songs of Summer 2013
Monday is Labor Day in the United States. Summer will continue for a few more weeks after the holiday. But for most Americans, this weekend marks the end of the season. On Tuesday, children return to school. Many community swimming pools close. And vacations are done.
So we come to our final show on the songs that defined the summer of 2013. Jim Tedder tells us about some of these summer anthems.
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