When was the last time you were at the Harvard Museum of Natural History?

If you only remember the Glass Flowers exhibit and think it’s not a good place for kids, it’s definitely time to take the entire family to Cambridge to explore this fabulous museum. With its interactive displays, interesting video presentations and tons of history, the Harvard Museum of Natural History is an unexpected delight for the family. And with Beebe Library’s family pass, you can enjoy the museum at affordable prices.

Check out a new exhibit, “Arthropods: Creatures that Rule”. This exhibit features hands-on activities, dramatic specimen displays, colorful video and graphics, and even live animals. These creatures have been evolving for 500 million years, range in size from giant king crabs to microscopic mites, represent over 80% of all animal species and can be found in every part of the world.

“Climate Change: Our Global Experiment” is another new exhibit that will allow you to separate the truth from the hype concerning global climate change. You’ll be able to investigate ice cores and deep ocean sediments, and uncover clues about the Earth’s past climates. Get the facts and then take part in a computer simulation that allows YOU to choose a course of action and see the consequences for the planet.

How about “Dodos, Trilobites, & Meteorites”? This exhibit displays to visitors one of Boston’s very first inhabitants, a huge trilobite, and microfossils of the planet’s earliest life forms approximately 2 billion years old. It has treasures of the world from the bottoms of the oceans, the tops of the Tibetan mountains, the Brazilian Amazon and many other exotic locations.

Of course, re-visit the Glass Flowers exhibit, a collection of 3,000 models of plant life from around the world. These models were the work of Leopold Blaschka and his son, Rudolph for George Lincoln Goodale, a botany professor who wanted life-like representations of plants which were not available at the time. The work took from 1887 to 1936 and represents over 830 plant species.

Beebe Library has a pass to the Harvard Museum of Natural History which admits up to 4 people for $2 per person. You can reserve the pass by calling the library at 781-246-6334 or reserve it online by going to our website www.wakefieldlibrary.org and clicking on Museum Passes. The Museum is also free to Massachusetts residents on Sunday mornings from 9 a.m. to noon. Check out the Harvard Museum of Natural History website for more information.

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