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Changing Exhibits Photo Gallery

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Life Onto Land: The Devonian
November 11, 2023–September 29, 2024

Life Onto Land: The Devonian centers around the Academy’s internationally celebrated paleontological research and the incredible discovery of Tiktaalik roseae.

Unearthed in 2004 on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic territory of Nunavut, this transitional fossil has been critical in piecing together a picture of how fins became limbs — or, of how terrestrial, limbed vertebrates arose from aquatic, lobe-finned ancestors.

A statue of tiktaalik emerging from the water.
A statue of tiktaalik emerging from the water.
Photo credit: Ramon Torres/ANS
The Entrance of the Life Onto Land Exhibit. A print of tiktaalik on the wall. A sandstone slab sits on a small pedistal.
The Entrance of the Life Onto Land Exhibit.
Photo credit: Ramon Torres/ANS
The skull and body of a tiktaalik fossil on display.
The skull and body of a tiktaalik fossil on display.
Photo credit: Ramon Torres/ANS
A mural painted of a devonian swamp along a wall infront of a tiktaalik statue.
A mural painted of a Devonian swamp.
Photo credit: Ramon Torres/ANS

Skin: Living Armor, Evolving Identity
June 24, 2023–January 21, 2024

Skin: Living Armor, Evolving Identity was created by the California Academy of Sciences and modified for travel and distributed by the Science Museum of Minnesota.

A statue of a black rhinoceros in the SKIN exhibit.
A Black Rhinoceros on display.
Photo credit: Ramon Torres/ANS
Two adults looking at specimens in the SKIN exhibit.
Photo credit: Ramon Torres/ANS
A woman reading a display about fish in the SKIN exhibit.
The exhibit features dozens of scientific specimens that showcase the incredibly adaptive properties of skin in animals.
Photo credit: Ramon Torres/ANS
A wall of many displays each with a human face of different ethnicities.
This exhibit presents the topics of racism, prejudice, and discrimination through the lenses of history and science.
Photo credit: Ramon Torres/ANS
Two adults looking at an exhibit in front of a wall of displays with human faces.
Photo credit: Ramon Torres/ANS
A mother in a dark green dress showing her son who is wearing a gingham shirt, an activitiy in the SKIN exhibit.
Photo credit: Ramon Torres/ANS