Sunday, March 21, 2010

community engagement--Museum Discoveries: Behind the Scenes

excellent model to follow:

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Saturday, March 27, 2010
U-M Exhibit Museum of Natural History &Ruthven Museums Bldg
1109 Geddes Avenue, Ann Arbor
   
From 9:00 am – 5:00 pm:  Family activities throughout the Exhibit Museum will highlight what the U-M science museums do.  Dig your own fossil!  Make a cast.  Find out how we learn about a culture from pottery.  From adventures in the field to building new exhibits, we'll help you see how the research happens, and crafts, experiments, and activities will allow you to become a museum scientist for a day.

From 12 pm to 4 pm: 4 in 1!  A rare opportunity to visit behind the scenes at the four museums of the Ruthven Museums Building. The Exhibit Museum of Natural History, and Museums of Anthropology, Paleontology, and Zoology welcome you into collection areas, research laboratories, exhibit preparation areas, and other spaces not usually open to the public. Meet scientist-curators, collection managers, exhibit preparators, and student researchers, and find out more about their work.

This program is offered as part of the 2009-2010 LSA Theme Year, "Meaningful Objects: Museums in the Academy."

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