Exhibits
EcoTarium features three floors of exhibits that make creative use of the museum's natural history collection and living wildlife to teach us about our planet's history and about New England environments of today.
The Zula Patrol invades Worcester on June 7, 2008!
The Zula Patrol: Mission Weather Exhibit
June 7, 2008-November 30, 2008
Enter the wonderful world of Zula! Based on the popular PBS animated children's series, The Zula Patrol, this engaging exhibit teaches young explorers key science concepts as they discover first-hand the strange and wild world of weather. The Zula Patrol: Under the Weather digital planetarium show is playing in conjunction with the exhibit.
The Zula Patrol award-winning Public Television series and the related exhibit and dome show were created by Zula USA, LLC.
DinoTracks
Take a giant step back in time with this hands-on, family-friendly exhibit. Step into the prehistoric footprints of the dinosaurs who once roamed New England and Eastern Canada and try out the methods scientists used to study them. Discover what might have walked in your backyard as you use a magnetic trackway to tell dinosaur stories, run as fast as a dinosaur-- even run your hands over a real-life dinosaur footprint. This exhibit includes signage in English, Spanish and French.
A traveling exhibit produced by the Environmental Exhibit Collaborative.
Visit these family-friendly exhibits every day:
Secrets of the Forest
What will you see on a walk through this indoor forest?
Lions and buzzards and bears? Fungus? Explore the amazing variety of creatures that live in the forest and the roles they each play-- from a living fungus spreading through a dead log to a mountain lion perched on high. Surprising use of artifacts, video, and hands-on activities present a familiar New England scene in a whole new way. Free with museum admission.
The Green Carnivores: A community exhibit
Stop by the museum's middle level for a look at marvelous and bizarre plants with an appetite for bugs.
Pitchers of digestive fluid, sticky bug traps and jaws with tooth like projections! See them at work in a new community exhibit created by the New England Carnivorous Plant Society featuring tropical pitcher plants, cobra lilies, Venus flytraps and sticky sundews. To find out more about these bug-eating plants, visit http://www.necps.org
What will you see at the EcoTarium?
A turtle swimming in an indoor pond? Amazing creatures living in dirt? Exhibits delve into freshwater and forest ecosystems, minerals, energy, water, microscopic life, and more.