The exhibit is in place for 1-2 months and contains label copy that explains the object and places it in cultural context. The Object of the Month program is temporarily suspended until further notice. Until recently, dinosaurs have been known primarily from studying their skeletons and trackways. Now, new discoveries of fossil dinosaur eggs, nests, and babies have shed new light on intriguing questions paleontologists have been pondering for over a century. The exhibit combines an assortment of real fossil eggs and cast eggs from around the world, along with the latest findings of leading dinosaur experts.
Chicken eggs provide scale.
Eggs are approximately 6 inches in length. In addition, the exhibit includes photographs and a video of fossil discoveries, holographic images, and lifelike models of embryos and hatchlings, including that of a Therizinosaur embryo made by Brian Cooley for the cover of the May 1996 National Geographic . Appropriate to the McClung Museum's fossil Hadrosaur bones from Tennessee, the exhibit includes real Hadrosaur eggs and nest from China. This exhibit is organized by the American Textile History Museum. The beautiful, technically sophisticated, and often amusing ceramics mark a rich, yet little known, tradition of great ceramic art.