Helping out with that reconnaissance were board advisors Catharine Hawks and Michael Vecchione, who work for the Smithsonian, Spruance said. Staffers began evaluating the museum’s future in 2014, Spruance said, developing strategic and business plans and visiting similar regional museums. The squid will still prominently welcome visitors. The special exhibit hall and the Nature Nook are staying the same.Īrtist’s rendering from the museum of the new Delaware Museum of Nature and Science. The Rest, Relax and Recharge Hub is another flexible space, and the place for refreshments. The trail, on the south side of the museum building, is already open.Īnd there’s more: The Skylight Atrium will feature a Tree of Life, showing “the evolution of organisms over billions of years and the relationship between them in increasingly diverse branches.” The Evolution Trail is a 1,500-foot outdoor loop that symbolically covers 4.6 billion years, from the formation of Earth to the present day (humans are around only the last three feet). These new skeleton casts will replace casts of dinosaurs that used to live in China. The PaleoZone will focus on species that lived in the mid-Atlantic in the Cretaceous period, the last part of the age of dinosaurs, roughly 45 million to 66 million years ago.įeatures will include dryptosaurus, nyctosaurus and mosasaur skeleton casts models to touch a tunnel to crawl under the skeletons and an interactive dig site to work like a paleontologist. The Discovery Gallery is a flexible space for exhibits and events.Įrror, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 11) The Global Ecosystems Journey focuses on “the diversity of nature in the world, the interdependency of life and how humans play the biggest role in change.” Its featured environments include the African savannah, the Arctic tundra, oceans and the South American rainforest. Research by Delaware’s colleges and nonprofits will also be included, Spruance said. Featured environments include the northern piedmont and coastal plain forests, salt marshes, the bald cypress swamp and the Delaware Bay. The Delaware Regional Journey will use a giant floor map and activities at designated stations to explore local biodiversity. The new museum will emphasize three galleries (Delaware Regional Journey, Global Ecosystems Journey and Discovery) and two other areas (the PaleoZone and the Evolution Trail outdoors). Artist’s rendering from the museum of the new Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Delaware gallery.
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