Experience Wonder!
Created in partnership with Blue Rhino Studio to inspire imagination, curiosity, and exploration, Wonder is the embodiment of how fantastical and magical the natural world is, with every aspect built to delight the senses in themes celebrating the incredible worlds of insects, exploration, plants and animals, culture, and ideas.
““Over time we have accumulated a huge and diverse collection including manmade and natural items from around the world. In pursuit of our mission as a local natural history museum it has been difficult to find opportunities to display materials from further abroad, but Wonder has given us the chance to use these resources and create an oversized cabinet of curiosities that we hope will inspire curiosity in visitors of all ages!””
There is a lot to explore: among an incredible array of magical items to touch, smell, and hear, younger visitors will enjoy drawing stations, a puppet theater, and dioramas that encourage building your own museum, while visitors of all ages will find incredible items rotating in and out from the Musuem’s nearly 140-year old collection.
Other features of the new exhibit include an entrance and office paying homage to the Museum's founder, naturalist Mary B. Norton, wet specimens from around the Monterey Bay, and fluorescent gems and minerals.
The Museum’s famous Sands of the World display has returned in an updated casing. You can view the full list of the 732 bottles of sand from across the world with this linked list.
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“I have never seen such a beautiful, enchanted exhibit, born from our collective imaginations, that rendered so magically.”
