wonderful things. - Las Vegas Natural History Museum

New Endowment
for Traveling Exhibits
The Museum hosts at least one traveling
exhibition each year, and featured two in
2010. These exhibits allow the Museum
to extend beyond its own collections and
broaden its teaching capabilities. They
encourage interest for new visitors and offer
new experiences for Museum members.
The Engelstad Family Foundation assists the
Museum in bringing exciting new traveling
exhibits to the Las Vegas community.
The Museum launched the new Engelstad
Family Special Exhibition Series with Bizarre
Beasts Past and Present. This exhibit features
replicas of some of the strangest animals ever
to inhabit the Earth, from giant terror birds
to incredible invertebrates. It explores the
forces that cause life to change and adapt to
different environments. Each of the bizarre
animals ran, swam, flew or crawled on the
Earth at some point during its history.
In January 2009, the Museum opened
the acclaimed traveling exhibit, Glow: Living
Lights, created by the exhibition company
Exhibit IQ. Glow: Living Lights explores
the phenomenon of bioluminescence, the
ability of an organism to produce light. The
exhibit explains how and why some animals
“glow.” Using rare photographs and film
footage, research-related artifacts, live and
preserved specimens and hands-on activities,
the exhibit sheds light on bioluminescence
and the important role it plays in nature and
in medical research. Glow: Living Lights was
on display at the Museum until spring 2010.
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