Hands-on activities enable children to write and illustrate their own stories, create puppets and masks to represent story characters. The exhibit offers a hands-on exploration in five interactive areas. Visitors can take a journey through a volcano, mine for rocks and minerals and seek to understand rocks, the Earth s crust and the layers of rocks, which comprise it. Group and senior citizens discounts available. Free family nights are 5 to 8 p.m. Thursdays.
Admission is free.
The exhibition features original oils, watercolors, drawings and lithographs by the self-taught artist. Accompanying the paintings of wolves, foxes, buffalo and other mammals, the exhibition features journals, taxidermy mounts, artifacts, specimens and field gear. There are also paintings by his sons, John Woodhouse Audubon and Victor Gifford Audubon. May 24 at the IMAX Theater located in the Museum. Closed Mondays and holidays.