By 1808Delaware
By 1812Blockhouse
This year, we’re adding a handful of Fall Road Trip ideas to our usual staple of Summer Road Trips. Each provides Delaware Countians with an easy day trip idea that features something unique and different.
As always, we remind our readers that Delaware County itself if full of interesting things to see and do.
Columbus’ venerable Center of Science and Industry (COSI) has two exhibitions over the next few weeks certain to please your younger family members.
Doc McStuffins : The Exhibit. “Doc McStuffins: The Exhibit” runs through January 3.
This early childhood education exhibit is based on Disney Junior’s Peabody Award-winning television series “Doc McStuffins.” It’s produced in conjunction with The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis with support from Riley Children’s at Indiana University Health, and has been wildly popular with preschool-age kids as it has toured museums across the United States for more than five years. The animated Disney Junior series is celebrating its 10th anniversary throughout 2022.
The interactive English and Spanish bilingual experience transports kids and families from Doc’s backyard clinic to the McStuffins Toy Hospital. There, families are invited to help Doc perform check-ups and diagnose toy patients while learning about healthy habits, compassion and nurturing care.
“The Doc McStuffins exhibit provides us a unique opportunity to do two fundamental things; 1. Celebrate the wonderful diversity in science and shine a light on veterinary medicine, and 2. Encourage the importance of taking care of ourselves as well as others,” said Dr. Frederic Bertley, president & CEO, COSI. “Not only is this exhibit going to be a blast for young learners, it is a great space where families can have important conversations about health and learn more about science and medicine in a hands-on, imaginative way.”
Disney character live appearances are not part of the exhibit. For more information, please visit COSI.org/DocMcStuffins.
Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs
For as long as dinosaurs walked the Earth, flying animals called pterosaurs ruled the skies. They ranged from the size of a sparrow to that of a two-seater plan. As a close relative of dinosaurs, these extraordinary winged reptiles – the first back-boned animals to evolve powered flight, and the only vertebrates to develop this ability besides birds and bats – are the focus of the intriguing exhibition.
This larger-than-life exhibition was created by the minds at the American Museum of Natural History, widely admired as one of the world’s preeminent scientific, educational and cultural institutions, and is the largest exhibition about these flying reptiles ever mounted in the United States. Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs highlights research by scientists and leading paleontologists around the world and features fossil casts of rare pterosaurs from Italy, Germany, China, The United States, the United Kingdom and Brazil, and includes life-size models, captivating videos and interactive exhibits that immerse visitors in the mechanics of pterosaur flight, including a motion sensor-based interactive that allows those who visit to use your body to “pilot” two species of pterosaurs through virtual, prehistoric landscapes.
The exhibition features dozens of casts and replicas of fossils from the American Museum of Natural History collection from museums around the world, including the cast of an unknown species of giant pterosaur unearthed in Romania in 2012 by scientists working in association with the American Museum of Natural History.
“Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs will be an exciting and powerful accompaniment to our AMNH Dinosaur Gallery…” said Dr. Frederic Bertley, president and CEO, COSI. “This partnership with the American Museum of Natural History continues to be an outstanding arrangement with the world’s best natural history museum, allowing us to showcase cutting-edge, world-class exhibitions for the Central Ohio community.”
“I think visitors to this exhibition will be most surprised by the staggering variation we see among pterosaurs. Not just variation in body shapes and in size of these fascinating animals, but also in the shape and size of the extravagant crests found of the heads of some of these creatures,” said Michael J. Novacek, senior vice president of science and curator in the Division of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History.
The exhibition runs through March 8. For more information, please visit COSI.org/Pterosaurs.
Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs is included with General Admission to COSI.
