Tuesday, September 22, 2020
9:00am - 10:00am
Digital Bruce Beginnings: Don't Bug Me
Digital Bruce Beginnings: Don't Bug Me
This program, for children ages 3 through 5 and their caregivers, will be led by a museum educator and include a discussion of one of the Museum's exhibitions and collections, a related storybook, and suggestions of interactive activities adults and kids can do together. This week's story is Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!, by Bob Barner.
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Bruce Experiences: The Inside Story: How CT Imaging is Revolutionizing Natural History Museums
Image: A CT scan showing the final two meals of an equally unfortunate eastern hognose snake, Heterodon platirhinos: a salamander and a toad. Florida Museum of Natural History image of Ed Stanley.
Bruce Experiences: The Inside Story: How CT Imaging is Revolutionizing Natural History Museums
Dr. Ed Stanley, associate scientist and director of the Digital Discovery and Dissemination Lab at the Florida Museum of Natural History, discusses the CT scans of reptiles currently on display in the Bruce Museum exhibition Under the Skin. Free for Members; $10 non-members. Not a member? Click here to join now.
“Natural history collections serve a critical role for scientists wanting to study patterns and changes of biodiversity, though access to these important resources has, historically, been limited,” says Dr. Stanley. “New digitization efforts are providing novel opportunities for researchers and democratizing access to specimens for scientists, educators, and the general public.”
“This virtual talk will use examples from cretaceous amphibians, armored lizards, and burrowing frogs, showcased so wonderfully in the Bruce Museum’s Under the Skin exhibition, to discuss how scanning museum specimens with computerized tomography (CT) to create cross-sectional images is facilitating exciting new research and educational initiatives,” Stanley says.
“Nature is full of beauty, at scales great and small,” says Curator of Science Dr. Daniel Ksepka, organizer of the exhibition. “Under the Skin highlights a dozen recent discoveries through a combination of remarkable imagery and real biological specimens. While each represents a research breakthrough, these striking and in many cases prize-winning images can rightfully be considered art in their own right.”
Plan Your Visit
Bruce Museum
1 Museum Drive
Greenwich, CT 06830-7157
Phone: 203.869.0376
Directions
Hours
Frequent Metro-North Train service to Greenwich Station, currently an 8 min. walk to the Bruce Museum.
Exit the train station and head east on Railroad Ave, turn right onto Steamboat Road, left onto Museum Drive, and take the second left into the parking lot, up past the construction and new building, to the Museum entrance.
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