Expedition Earth Expands!
Continue the astounding trek through time that began in Expedition Earth Glaciers & Giants as the experience expands into two additional galleries:
Presenting Sponsor: M&T BankExpedition Earth You & Your Earth
You & Your Earth explores the environment we live in today. Investigate the vast array of living things that populate our region, and discover the connections that we humans have to all of the life forms around us.
Examine hundreds of objects from the RMSC's natural science collections. Take a visual tour of our region's landscape, surveying changes that have taken place since humans began arriving in large numbers a few hundred years ago.
Rediscover spectacular dioramas of our local environment featuring black bears, beavers, and the Bergen Bog. These re-created scenes are enhanced with interactive audio and visual features. Young visitors will particularly enjoy the Willow Theater, complete with puppets and costumes, located in the child-size Beaver Lodge.
Continue the journey as you discover how scientists collect and analyze information about the environment, and how science can help us make everyday decisions that have important effects on environmental quality. Complete your expedition with a visit to the "Bio-Bulletins Theater" for updates from the American Museum of Natural History about current issues in biological science and the global environment. Expedition Earth An Ever-Changing Planet
Did you know that the place we call Rochester once sat at the bottom of a tropical sea south of the equator? Examine the evidence, and find out how scientists know this to be true. With interactive experiences, hands-on specimens, and sensational visual environments, An Ever-Changing Planet turns back the clock to explore the ways that the earth and the life that it supports have changed over the last 500 million years in our region.
Begin your adventure with a look at volcanoes, earthquakes, and the continual shifting and sliding of the earth's surface. Step onto a vibe plate to get a hint of a real earthquake experience. Explore fossils and a variety of hand-on exhibits that reveal the ever-changing nature of life in our region.
Discover how life was changing at a time long before the dinosaurs, when millions of now-extinct living things covered the planet's surface. Marvel at the beautifully restored and enhanced Undersea Diorama depicting the teeming underwater environments and tropical seas that covered the land more than 350 million years ago.
