These exhibits are closed for renovation of the Museum.
Planning is underway for future regional exhibits .
The Major Chapman Grant Hall of Desert Ecology offers an immersion experience in the desert environment through a dramatic 40-foot long panoramic diorama. This exhibit also contains live scorpions and tarantulas in rock wall grottos and an interactive laser disk program. The Mary Hollis Clark Desert Discovery Lab provides a place for hands-on exploration. Staffed by volunteers, it contains live reptiles and rodents, microscopes, specimen drawers, field books, and a video. The Reptile and Rattlesnake Hall features a series of small dioramas of common local reptiles and highlights the museum's rattlesnake collection, the largest in the country.