The Delaware Museum of Natural HistoryThis family-friendly event features hands-on activities and crafts about presidents' roles in environmental preservation:
* Live peacock and information about decorative plumage policy
* Scavenger hunt about Thomas Jefferson's Lewis and Clark Expedition
* Matching game on Theodore Roosevelt's empire of national forests
* Live ducks and real duck stamps
* Endangered species exhibit
WHAT:
Natural Leaders: Presidents and Nature
WHERE:
Delaware Museum of Natural History, 4840 Kennett Pike, Wilmington, DE 19807
DATE:
Monday, February 15, 2010
TIME:
9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
ADMISSION:
$7 for adults, $5 for children (3-17)
$6 for seniors, free for children 2 and younger.
Free for museum members.
MORE INFO:
Visit www.delmnh.org
(302) 658-9111
About the Delaware Museum of Natural History
As the only natural history museum in Delaware, DMNH opened its doors in 1972 to excite and inform people about the natural world through exploration and discovery. The museum has the state's only permanent dinosaur display, surrounded by exhibits of mammals, shells, and other specimens from around the world. DMNH houses world-renowned scientific collections of mollusks and birds, including the second-largest collection of birds' eggs in North America.
Directions
The Delaware Museum of Natural History is located five miles northwest of downtown Wilmington and three miles from the Pennsylvania border:
4840 Kennett Pike (Route 52)
Wilmington, Delaware, 1980
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