🐘 #MuseumSpotlight #FossilFriday 🐟🐘🦥🐴🐪 How often do you see a life‑sized mastodon full reconstruction?

I happened across this fantastic display recently in the Entering the Ice Age exhibition at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery in Dayton, Ohio. If you have nature‑ or paleo‑curious kids—I highly recommend a visit.

They also have an excellent giant ground sloth and short‑faced bear skeletal replicas.

https://boonshoft.org/

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Prototype: The Experimental Museum and its immersive exhibits to open Saturday

An innovative 30,000-square-foot museum and sensory experience is coming to downtown Columbus this weekend.  Prototype: The Experimental Museum will host its grand opening Saturday at 540 Maier Place and feature around 25 exhibits throughout the space.  The museum is designed to be a thought-provoking and unconventional experience, according to Natalie Pettit, project manager of the […]

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Ohio State library’s cookbook collection inspires ‘Essential Ingredients’ exhibit

Recipes can tell stories that go beyond taste, revealing how people lived, worked and ate throughout history. The Rare Books & Manuscripts Library at Ohio State houses a growing collection of cookbooks that preserve pieces of American culture through food. Among them is “New American Cookery,” a rare title that followed what’s considered the first […]

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