What kind of exhibits can you expect to see at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore, Maryland?
The exhibits include:
• Dinosaur Mysteries
• Follow the Blue Crab
• Fossil Quest
• Kid’s Room
• Newton’s Alley
• Our Place in Space
• Your Body
• Body, Space and Terralink
• Traveling Exhibits
Dinosaur Mysteries
The Dinosaur Mysteries exhibit features a step into the world of prehistoric predators and plant eaters where you can pretend to be the paleontologist. There are over a dozen full size dinosaurs throughout Edward St. John Hall, which is home to Dinosaur Mysteries. Throughout this exhibit you can walk under, over, and through a landscape filled with dig pits, a field lab, excavation sites, and other areas of discovery.
Full size skeletons and casts of fossilized remains are on display for everyone’s hands-on experience. Touch a triceratops skull, grab a brush and work side by side with other dinosaur hunters. Measure the length of dinosaur leg bones. Stand in a footprint in the dinosaur track way or sit in a nest of dinosaur eggs.
Live animals that include amphibians and lizards help explain the connection between past and present.
Follow the Blue Crab
Follow the Blue Crab exhibit at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore, Maryland is one of the region’s most important residents and the spotlight of the center’s exhibit focusing on the Chesapeake Bay and its relationships to Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic.
This exhibit features live diamondback terrapins, crabs, fish, seahorses, and native plants in aquatic display tanks and also gives guests a chance to walk the Bay. Huge full color satellite imagery takes up a major part of the floor space where visitors can walk across the map to observe the ratio of water to land, concentrations of population centers, and remaining green spaces.
Follow the Blue Crab exhibit is also home to one of the earliest exhibition components of the Maryland Science Center – the huge mechanical crab!
Fossil Quest
Seeing how civilized Baltimore, Maryland is today makes it hard to imagine that meat eating dinosaurs, raptors, and crocodiles once roamed Maryland. Fossils found around the state and around the region prove that this was indeed a fact. It is also possible that giant Sequoia trees once grew in Maryland probably 100 million years ago.
The Fossil Quest exhibit features a large variety of fossils found everywhere from beaches to backyards across Maryland. You will see 70 million year old crocodile armor, teeth from a 100 million year old Mosasaur, prehistoric shells of oysters and nautilus.
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