Connecting the environment of the ancient past with the natural and cultural history of yesterday and today.















 

 

Temporary Exhibits

Due to the project to replace our permanent exhibits, major temporary exhibits will be discontinued for now. We have small display cases that will will have displays that will change once or twice per year.

Now showing:

   Artifacts from the Guernsey collection.    Coal-age plant fossils    What is paleontology?

    Guernsey Artifact Collection          Coal-age Plant Fossils                What is Paleontology?

Previous Exhibit Topics:

Colossal Squid painted on wall, display with fossils and a marine aquarium.          Artifacts in a display case.

              Tentacles exhibit in 2007                                Waaay Back Home in Indiana in 2008

Focused on ancient creatures with tentacles.       Displayed artifacts dug up at the Horseshoe Casino site.

Stibnite crystals (an antimony mineral) are shown.         Fossil turtles, tracks, dinosaurs and mammals are shown.

            Rocks, Minerals & Life in 2008                          More than Dinosaurs in 2004

Explored the work of beautiful minerals and how       Jack Hankla's amazing collection of fossils were

we use them in our lives.                                           shown.

See the on-line exhibit

The History of Land Plants, developed and displayed here in 2009.                                                                                   

Other past temporary exhibits will be re-created for our website as time allows.

Updated January 20, 2012