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Hudson Highlands Nature Museum Presents Grand Opening Weekend of the Living Hudson Exhibit
 | | Hudson Highlands Nature Museum's Living Hudson Exhibit with Judy Onufer, Education Coordinator, Jim Farkas, Museum Assistant and Pam Golben, Curator of Living Exhibits. |
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On Saturday, October 20 and Sunday, October 21 from 12 pm until 4 pm the Hudson Highlands Nature Museum will be hosting the Grand Opening Weekend of the Living Hudson Exhibit at the Museum's Wildlife Education Center, 25 Boulevard, Cornwall-on-Hudson.
There will be crafts for children, fish shaped snacks and a scavenger hunt. There will also be a special "Meet the Animals" at 2:30 pm, on each day, that will focus on the animals for whom the new Living Hudson Exhibit is now home. The Living Hudson Exhibit is a multisensory experience full of the flora and fauna native to the Hudson Estuary.
Visitors can follow the journey of water to the river as it trickles down a highland creek into a wetland pond and watch as the pond empties into a freshwater stream, which then joins the Hudson River Estuary. This interactive exhibit allows visitors to: search the waterfall for Green frogs and Pickerel frogs, locate painted turtles, search for crayfish and schools of minnows in the freshwater stream and feel the shells and fossils that are imbedded in the surrounding rocks.
This Exhibit was made possible thanks to generous grants from the NYS Hudson River Estuary Program and the Hudson River Improvement fund. Exhibit designer, Gregory George and his crew from PetraWorks, Inc. have created an amazing 3-dimensional exhibit that recreates a remarkable journey in the watershed of the Hudson Highlands.
"It is truly amazing! It adds a great new dimension to our Hall of Animals," says Pam Golben, Curator of Living Exhibits. "Everyone interested in the Hudson Valley needs to see this exhibit," encourages Education Coordinator, Judy Onufer and Museum Assistant James Farkas. Museum is $3 per person. Members and children under three are free. For more information please call 845-534-5506, ext. 204. Visit the Museum's website at www.hhnaturemuseum.org.
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