SPECIAL EXHIBITS

The Delaware Museum of Natural History enhances the visitor experience by hosting several traveling exhibits each year. This added benefit in the spacious Ederic Exhibit Hall broadens the scope of natural history content beyond what is covered in the Museum’s permanent displays. The changing material inspires specialized programming in the Education Division, with accompanying choices in summer camp and Young Explorers classes.

Glow: Living Lights
Saturday, January 26, 2013 - Monday, May 27, 2013 

What puts the fire into a firefly? It's bioluminescence, a living organism's ability to produce its own light, and it is one of the most incredible, yet least understood phenomena in nature. Glow: Living Lights is the only traveling exhibition to explore this mystery of nature.  Glow: Living Lights was created by Exhibit IQ.
 

Water's Extreme Journey
June 15, 2013 - September 2, 2013

Developed with world-renowned marine life artist Wyland, Water's Extreme Journey takes visitors on an exciting and important adventure quest for clean water. Visitors experience the watershed as a water drop, exploring first-hand the science behind the water cycle. But it's not all wet and wild - through powerful interactives and local messaging, visitors will realize that even their daily decisions can immediately improve the watershed in their own backyard.  Additional support for this exhibit provided by Artesian Resources Corporation.

Ice Age Imperials
October 11, 2013 - January 5, 2014

Ice Age Imperials provides a rare opportunity for you to 'Touch the Ice Age'. Interacting with real fossils from ancient animals like the sabertooth cat, woolly mammoth, giant sloth, dire wolf, giant beaver, and teeth from a huge Ice Age bear will bring the Ice Age to life like never before.  Created by The Antiquities Company.