Bug Squad
February 10 – April 28, 2024
Bug Squad is a hands-on exhibit exploring the unique “superpowered” abilities of bugs which opened on February 10, 2024 at the Sam Noble Museum. Exhibit highlights included the Spider Web Escape area with a slide, the Ant Colony Climber, and experiencing (virtually) what it’s like to fly like a dragonfly in the Dragonfly Drone. Families compared the way insects communicate by sound and light, and explored how colors and lights function in nature. The exhibit is produced by Omaha Children’s Museum.
Living Languages
October 14, 2023 – January 28, 2024
Living Languages represents 20 years of celebrating the Native languages of Oklahoma and the United States. The exhibit showcased over 120 pieces of student art from the museum’s annual Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2023. The ONAYLF continues to inspire students to preserve irreplaceable culture and heritage, and we hope visitors enjoyed the projects that students produced over two decades of competition and learning.
Picturing Science
November 4, 2023 – January 28, 2024
Presented by the American Museum of Natural History, Picturing Science lets visitors dive into over 20 jaw-dropping sets of larger-than-life images. You’ll witness the mind-boggling scope of research happening in museums all over the world, and get a sneak peek into the mind-blowing ways we use optical tools in groundbreaking studies! Get set for a wild ride!
Nature’s Blueprint: Biomimicry in Art and Design
June 17 – October 22, 2023
In an age of complex environmental challenges, why not look to the ingenuity of nature for solutions? The forms, patterns, and processes found in the natural world—refined by 3.8 billion years of evolution—can inspire our design of everything from raincoats to skyscrapers. This approach to innovation, called biomimicry, is becoming increasingly popular. Bird wings. Beehives. Porcupine quills. These have inspired design improvements that enable faster travel, safer buildings, and more precise medical equipment.
Rainforest Adventure
February 25, 2023 – June 4, 2023
Rainforest Adventure brings the museum experience inside a fully interactive maze environment. Visitors explore one of the least-known habitats on earth in a fully interactive maze exhibit, full of the sights and sounds of a tropical rainforest. Created by Minotaur Mazes, Rainforest Adventure offers visitors an interactive experience that empowers visitors to make a difference after they learn how essential rainforests are to human health and survival, and that by caring for the rainforest they are caring for the planet.
Sahara Sea Monsters
October 15, 2022 – February 23, 2023
Sahara Sea Monsters took visitors on a journey through 600 million years of the Moroccan fossil record. Visitors discovered massive mosasaurs, amazing trilobites and other spectacular invertebrates.
Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend
February 12, 2022 – June 19, 2022
From their depiction in the 1500s as angry sea monsters to their status as icons of pop culture today, the narwhal with its unique spiral tusk has inspired legend in Inuit and European society and fascinated people across cultures for centuries. Developed by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and its Arctic Studies Center and organized for travel by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), the exhibition explores interdisciplinary research about the narwhal in their rapidly changing Arctic environment conducted by Smithsonian scientists in collaboration with Arctic researchers and members of Inuit communities. The exhibition uses firsthand accounts from these scientists and Inuit community members to reveal how traditional knowledge and experience, coupled with scientific research, heighten the understanding of narwhals and the changing global climate.