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The Akron Fossils & Science Center is a small museum and learning center located in Copley Township, Ohio, United States, a few miles west of Akron. The building contains the Creation Education Museum, which features exhibits displaying the arguments for and against creationism and intelligent design , as well as an exploration of the ...
This list of museums in Ohio is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The Boonshoft Museum of Discovery (abbreviated as Boonshoft) is a children's museum, science and technology center and zoo in Dayton, Ohio, United States that focuses on science and natural history. Exhibits include an extensive natural history collection as well as maintaining a collection of live animals native to Ohio and abroad.
Dinosaurs in Motion, a summer exhibit at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, offers visitors the chance to interact with kinetic dinosaur sculptures. Dinosaurs in Motion, a summer exhibit at The Henry ...
One of the museum center's largest events is its annual 1940s Day, a celebration of the decade, every year on the second weekend in August. The event includes a classic car show, swing dancing, big band music, and a vintage costume contest. The museum center began hosting 1940s-themed celebrations during its 75th anniversary celebration in 2008.
The museum received the precious stone collection of Jeptha Wade II, after his death in 1926. [7] In 1930, the museum organized an ornithological safari to Kenya, expanding the Case collection. [8] The Haplocanthosaurus dinosaur, discovered by museum crew in 1954, is one of the most complete examples ever found of this 70-footlong sauropod. [9]
The Field Museum has added a new fossil to its collection, calling it the museum’s most important fossil acquisition since Sue the T. rex. An Archaeopteryx, it has feathers, hollow bones, a long ...
The discovery of fossils led 19th century Americans to rethink their place in the world.