Bell Museum Of Natural History

ExploraDome Comes to U of M's Bell Museum

Visitors to the University of Minnesota’s Bell Museum of Natural History will have the chance to see a 3-D exploration of the solar system, galaxy, and universe this summer.

Minnesota Planetarium Society’s ExploraDome, an interactive astronomy and Earth science learning environment, will be at the Bell Museum for public shows at 1, 2, and 3 p.m. on the following dates: June 28, July 12, July 19, July 26, Aug. 2, Aug. 10, Aug. 17 and Aug. 23.

Audiences can decide what to see and where to fly because the system uses a video game-style controller to pilot the audience through the interactive, digital world.

The ExploraDome has been traveling the state since it was introduced in 2007.

The Bell Museum of Natural History is part of the university's College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences and is located at 10 Church St. S.E. in Minneapolis. Visit bellmuseum.org for more information.

Bell Museum of Natural History Exhibition Features Alaskan ...

A new exhibit, opening June 25 at the Bell Museum of Natural History, presents images and information of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).

“Arctic Sanctuary: Our Collective Refuge” explores a vast and remote land that remains both free and wild, untamed by technology and undisturbed by human development. The exhibit offers a window into a world that is ecologically intact, where we may observe and learn from nature’s complex and wonderful patterns.

The exhibit features large format photographs along with text from the 2010 book, Arctic Sanctuary: Images of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by wilderness landscape photographer Jeff Jones and writer Laurie Hoyle. The book commemorates the 50th anniversary of the creation of the ANWR.

“This show combines Jeff Jones’ spectacular panoramic photographs of America’s wildest lands with poetry, interpretive text, maps and information about the refuge,” says exhibit coordinator Gordon Murdock. “Whether your interest is wilderness, the arctic, conservation or spectacularly beautiful images this show will speak to you.”

Jones’ keen understanding of the natural world, coupled with decades of experience in remote backcountry and wilderness areas, forms the foundation for his exceptional landscape photography. His goal is to ask viewers to examine their own ideas of wilderness in the modern world while returning to the intangible values of spirit and place that one can experience in ANWR’s mountains, river valleys, forests and coastal plain.

The exhibit opens June 25 in the Bell Museum’s Jaques Gallery and will continue through Sept. 4. A celebratory event for the exhibit is scheduled for Thursday, July 14. The exhibit is cosponsored by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

The Bell Museum of Natural History is Minnesota’s official natural history museum where more than four million specimens support ongoing research and teaching at the University of Minnesota. The museum strives to discover, document and understand nature and promote informed stewardship of our world. It is part of the university’s College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences and welcomes nearly 85,000 visitors a year. Visit www.bellmuseum.org for hours, admission and location information.

Occasional papers - Minnesota Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota

The language of wood, wood in Finnish sculpture, design and architecture : [exhibition], James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 27-October 28, 1989

Contemporary aboriginal art from the Robert Holmes à Court Collection, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, 22 February-25 March, James Ford Bell Museum, University of Minnesota, 20 April-2 June, Lakewood Center for the Arts, Lake Oswego, 15 June-19 July

American Natural History Art Show, Catalog of an exhibition May 9-30, 1971, James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History

In the realm of the wild, the art of Bruno Liljefors of Sweden