Rochester Museum and Science Center currently has the traveling Extreme Mammals exhibit from New York City’s American Museum of Natural History. Unfortunately photography in the exhibit itself is not permitted, however, in their lobby is a mamoth creature that my youngest calls a ‘camel’. He calls another mammal in the exhibit a camel as well, which much more closely resembles a camel!
For reference, 3 year old Sweet Pea can just barely see the writing on the information table you see under this creature! It’s incredible to think mammals like this once roamed the earth! Within the exhibit there is also an incredibly small mammal that resembles a mouse, however, it is breathtakingly tiny!
What an interesting exhibit. I would recommend seeing these mammals if nothing more than to take in the extremes. It is unfortunate that a fee is required to see them, much greater than I expected for non-members of the museum, as I have several friends who would have loved to take their kiddos but could not afford to. I also would have loved to have a take-away information sheet to do further research with my boys as they were extremely interested in several of the mammals, but did not locate one within the exhibit.
If you are in this area and have the chance to explore this exhibit before it leaves RMSC in mid-April I’d love to hear your opinions on it!
I am taking my boy there…I live a tiny bit away…but we head that direction a couple times a year..he will go nuts!