Traveling Exhibits at Discovery Center

A STUNNING WETLANDS IN FOCUS EXHIBIT

• Opens May 1 and up for 6 months
• Showcases the Murfree Spring Wetland
• Features eye-catching photos by local professional and amateur photographers
• Provides wetland habitat information through interpretative panels
• Offers educational indoor and outdoor programs
• Encourages participation in a monthly photography contest available through disposable digital cameras for photography in the wetlands
• Supplies nature role-playing costumes for dress-up
• Emphasizes wetlands conservation

Picture yourself seeing yellow-crowned night herons, muskrats, river otters, warblers, water snakes, dragonflies, frogs, turtles and more!

photo by Bob Timmerman

Building America’s Canal Exhibit
Now Open at Discovery Center

The new Building America’s Canal Exhibit in the new second floor gallery features interactive stations to teach and entertain. The stations include:

Build a Suspension Bridge! Visitors can assemble a model of a single span cable aqueduct.

Build a Lock on an interactive computer designed for children as young as four.

Build a Crane! Here visitors may use a construction kit approach that allows the building pf a variety of simple cranes or derricks and move around blocks of cargo.

Build a Canal System! This station even provides a tally/abacus-like counting system to challenge older visitors to prepare a cost analysis in building a canal system to learn about building on a limited budget.

Build an Arched Bridge! This station features an activity table with forms and blocks to build a masonry aqueduct.

Come discover with us!

Special thanks to Ingram Barge for sponsoring this exhibit!

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