Buffalo Museum of Science
Science museum in Buffalo, New York, with interactive exhibits.
The Buffalo Museum of Science sits in Martin Luther King Jr. Park, northeast of downtown Buffalo and near the Kensington Expressway. Its building, created by architects August Esenwein and James A. Johnson, opened on January 19, 1929. It became the permanent home for exhibits first gathered by the Buffalo Young Men's Association in 1836, later passed to the Buffalo Natural History Society, whose first president was George W. Clinton. The museum covers animals, astronomy, technology, and other science topics.
Quick Facts
- Established
- December 5, 1861
- Location
- Buffalo, New York, U.S.
- President
- Gary Siddall
- Curator
- Kathryn Leacock
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Exhibitions
The museum features several interactive Science Studios. Explorations is a gallery for children ages two to seven with monthly themes. Explore You, opened in March 2012, is a health systems science studio sponsored by Independent Health, covering healthy choices, body systems, the heart, medical technology, genetics, and local research. The Rethink Extinct Science Studio opened in March 2015, replacing the Extinction Gallery, and addresses extinction throughout life's history, including present-day extinctions and endangered species. The former Extinction Gallery held fossils and cultural pieces such as 50-million-year-old birds, feathers and flowers, the earliest known land plant, a trilobite trapped in a seashell, a cast of a Tyrannosaurus rex skull, a replica of Archaeopteryx, Triceratops horridus, Deinonychus antirrhopus, and Allosaurus fragilis. A specimen of Albertosaurus sarcophagus nicknamed "Stanley" is displayed in the first floor lobby. Nano is an interactive exhibition on nanoscale science and engineering. A renovation campaign begun in 2010 converted diorama-based exhibits into interactive Science Studios, culminating with the reopening of the Kellogg Observatory in July 2018.
Previous exhibits
Whem Ankh, an exhibit running from 1998 to 2013, displayed over 250 artifacts from daily life on the lower Nile River 2,200 years ago, including the mummies of Nes-hor and Nes-min and the coffin of Djed-hor-ef-ankh. Initially temporary, it became permanent due to popularity and closed in July 2013, replaced by the Artifacts exhibit in March 2014. The Marchand Hall of Wildflowers exhibited wax models of plant species created by naturalists George and Paul Marchand.
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