Hands-On Interactives

The highlight interactive Skulls exhibit invites you to touch, draw, and even reimagine your eyesight.

Though the beetles are behind glass, Skulls is a highly interactive experience, inviting you to touch, draw, and even imagine yourself inside various skulls. At the drawing station, use a camera lucida to sketch an American alligator skull. Over at the Predator or Prey vision station, look through a viewer to see like a lion, then flip a lever to experience the same scene as an antelope. Explore characteristics that separate carnivores from herbivores by becoming a “skull detective,” examining eye sockets, teeth, and other identifying features—and then get your hands on the skulls themselves, touching human, horse, and dolphin casts.