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Pets and emotional support animals are not considered service animals and will not be allowed. Click here to begin planning your event. Your best bet is to reach out to one of our research departments with your question. You can find all their contact information here. This browser is no longer supported. We have detected you are using a less secure browser - Internet Explorer. Get tickets. Things are a little different right now. Face coverings are encouraged for unvaccinated people over age 10, optional otherwise.
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Shop our Halloween collection of games, gifts, and accessories. Grab a realistic astronaut suit and helmet for your future astronaut to trick-or-treat in style! The Science Division conducts scientific research with robust and diverse community participation, and conveys accurate, compelling stories that connect the past, present, and future.
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Get tickets. Things are a little different right now. In Coors Gems and Minerals Hall, follow the mine shaft into a Mexican silver mine, where a cavern glistens with milky white gypsum crystals and stalactites. Then enter Colorado's own Sweet Home Mine to discover a six-foot wall of beautiful red rhodochrosite crystals. Colorado was founded on mining, so you'll see more local finds, like Tom's Baby, an eight-pound nugget of crystallized gold unearthed in Breckenridge in You'll also be dazzled by the largest known pocket of aquamarine ever discovered, from Colorado's own Mount Antero, and a giant Brazilian topaz once owned by artist Salvador Dali.
The hall is packed with hundreds of specimens from around the world. Hands-on activities and videos help young explorers learn about mineral characteristics and how minerals form. Experience the incredible diversity among Native American groups and the practicality and artistry of their everyday objects.
We are all different, we are all the same is the thread running through this exhibition hall. Shelter, food, clothing, transportation, tools-all are basic human needs satisfied in different ways by different cultures. Among North America's native peoples, the rich diversity in traditional and modern lifeways reflects the distinctive regional influences of environment and materials. As you travel through the various regions you can explore authentic reconstructed dwellings, including an Inuit snow house, a Northwest Coast clan house, a Navajo hogan, and a Cheyenne tipi.
Along the way, examine beautifully crafted weavings, basketry, beadwork, and pottery. Stop to listen to stories and watch videos on the major cultural groups. Animals big and small come to life in exquisitely detailed dioramas that transport you around the world. From Alaska to Argentina, Africa to Australia, more than 90 wildlife and habitat scenes illustrate our planet's amazing diversity.
Like three-dimensional "postcards" from places near and far, they capture moments in time, showcasing the world's wondrous animals and the delicate ecosystems in which they live. See the only collection of the remarkable Vasily Konovalenko gem sculptures on public display outside of Moscow. Vasily Konovalenko koh-noh-vuh-len-koh was born in in Petrivka, Ukraine just north of the Black Sea. After earning a degree in art and architecture, he became a stage designer for the Donetsk Opera and Ballet Theatre.
He worked on productions of Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, and other classic operas and ballets. In , while working at the Mariinka Theatre in St. Petersburg, Konovalenko produced sets for the ballet Stone Flower, in which the protagonist is a stonecutter.
Konovalenko's gem carvings for the ballet earned rave reviews, and he became smitten with the art form. Visually immersed through a head-mounted VR display, fliers are enveloped in a high-resolution virtual landscape charged with interactive zones and entertaining surprises.
A journey through the eons allows you to trace the evolution of life on Earth, from single-celled organisms to lumbering dinosaurs to the inhabitants of today's world.
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