MISS DOCENT: Bicentennials, earthquakes and mysterious cannonballs

Every week, Abigail Minor updates you on the newest and most browse-worthy rotation exhibits in museums. This week: bicentennials, earthquakes and mysterious cannonballs.

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MISS DOCENT: Bicentennials, earthquakes and mysterious cannonballs

POSTED: Thursday, March 22, 2012, 2:00 PM

Filed Under: Arts | Arts Events | Arts Preview | Museum Visual Art

Impressive permanent collections may have put our area museums on the map, but it's the rotating exhibits that keep visitors coming back. Every Thursday, Abigail Minor updates you on the newest and most browse-worthy. This week: bicentennials, earthquakes and mysterious cannonballs.

"The Nature of Discovery" at The Academy of Natural Sciences

The nation’s oldest natural history museum is celebrating its bicentennial this year with The Academy at 200: The Nature of Discovery. Themed rooms figuratively set in a Bahamas coral reef, a tent for bird skinning in the middle of a Southeastern Asian jungle, a Mongolian yurt and a soggy Philadelphian marsh immerse visiting explorers in the Academy’s past and current scientific strides in avian, paleontological and climate studies. Available for touching is a marine reptile fossil cast, meteorite and brain coral fragment. The opening of this exhibit is accompanied by a two day weekend extravaganza of an outdoor light show, a wandering Barbershop Quartet, and the science tune-singing Diggity Dudes.

Sat.-Sun., March 24-25, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., exhibit through March 2013, $10-$12, The Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, 215-299-1000, ansp.org.

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