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Changing Exhibits Photo Gallery

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Skin: Living Armor, Evolving Identity
June 24, 2023–January 21, 2024

Skin: Living Armor, Evolving Identity was created by the California Academy of Sciences and modified for travel and distributed by the Science Museum of Minnesota.

A statue of a black rhinoceros in the SKIN exhibit.
A Black Rhinoceros on display.
Photo credit: Ramon Torres/ANS
Two adults looking at specimens in the SKIN exhibit.
Photo credit: Ramon Torres/ANS
A woman reading a display about fish in the SKIN exhibit.
The exhibit features dozens of scientific specimens that showcase the incredibly adaptive properties of skin in animals.
Photo credit: Ramon Torres/ANS
A wall of many displays each with a human face of different ethnicities.
This exhibit presents the topics of racism, prejudice, and discrimination through the lenses of history and science.
Photo credit: Ramon Torres/ANS
Two adults looking at an exhibit in front of a wall of displays with human faces.
Photo credit: Ramon Torres/ANS
A mother in a dark green dress showing her son who is wearing a gingham shirt, an activitiy in the SKIN exhibit.
Photo credit: Ramon Torres/ANS

Illuminating Birds: Drawing as a Way of Knowing
May 20–October 15, 2023

Three prints, an open illustration book, and three taxidermy birds.
Celebrating Elizabeth Gould.
Photo credit: Ramon Torres/ANS
Drawing of a Peregrine Falcon by Louis Agassiz Fuertes
A drawing of a Peregrine Falcon by Louis Agassiz Fuertes
Photo credit: Ramon Torres/ANS
Louis Agassiz Fuertes' palette and paint box
Louis Agassiz Fuertes' palette and paint box.
Photo credit: Ramon Torres/ANS
A taxidermy great Indian Hornbill.
A Great Indian Hornbill, (Buceros bicornis)
Photo credit: Ramon Torres/ANS
Sketches of Birds in blue ink, by Ned Smith.
"Sketches" by Ned Smith. 1936-1985.
Photo credit: Ramon Torres/ANS
A print of Alexandrine Parakeet aka Hooded Parakeet by Edward Lear
Edward Lear Alexandrine Parakeet aka Hooded Parakeet.
A print of Common Redpoll from Birds of Great Britain by John Gould
John Gould Common Redpoll from Birds of Great Britain.
A print of European Goldfinch from Birds of Great Britain by John Gould.
John Gould European Goldfinch from Birds of Great Britain.
A print of a Marsh Warbler from Birds of Great Britain by John Gould.
John Gould Marsh Warbler from Birds of Great Britain.
A print of a Splendid Fairywren by John Goulds.
John Gould's Birds of Australia, Vol. 3 open to Splendid Fairywren.
A print of a Variegated by John Gould.
John Gould's Birds of Australia, Vol. 3 open to Variegated.