Arts & Entertainment
Fossil Hunters Opening At Cleveland Museum Of Natural History
The special exhibit will run from June 1 through October 28.
From Cleveland Museum of Natural History:The Search for Our Past, a special exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, will transport visitors to the badlands of Ethiopia and put them right in the middle of humanity’s most important fossil hunt. The exhibit opens June 1 and will run until October 28, 2019.
The exhibit will introduce visitors to the Museum’s very own team of researchers, whose quest is to fill in our ancestral family tree. It will give guests a glimpse of the unforgiving environment and rugged camp life these scientists brave, and the thrill that comes with discovery.
Fossil Hunters features landmark discoveries by researchers led by Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie, the Museum’s Curator of Physical Anthropology and one of the world’s foremost experts in paleoanthropology.
“Fossil Hunters showcases our talented team of researchers, who are at the forefront of extending the Museum’s global reach to facilitate an understanding of who we are as a species and where we came from,” said Dr. Haile-Selassie. “By sharing insights into their outstanding work, this exhibit will help us further our mission to connect with an ever-expanding range of audiences.”
The Museum-produced exhibit is an immersive blend of science, culture and adventure featuring interactive, hands-on exhibits, stunning photography and artifacts from the Ethiopian research site, Woranso-Mille.
Visitors will be virtually transported to the Afar desert of Ethiopia, where they will see how teams of fossil hunters search for clues to our evolutionary puzzle. They will learn where fossils are found, how they are detected and extracted from the surface.
“The discoveries that we make require tireless work by dedicated individuals who work in a myriad of conditions,” said Haile-Selassie. “Through this exhibit, our guests, while they are close to the comforts of home, are introduced to the flatlands, rugged valleys, mountainous ridges, streams and rivers that we call home during our search for fossils, major clues to answer questions related to our origins.”
