Activities

This traveling exhibit is an immersive discovery that allows visitors to:

• Go on a video adventure with Charlie as he journeys back to the dinosaur age
• Engage in activities and games about variation, inheritance, selection, time and adaptation (VISTA) - key evolutionary concepts.
• Get a direct look at the connection between dinosaurs and modern birds

Story Theater

Charlie and Kiwi's adventure begins in an immersive theater on a giant digital storybook screen. Audiences join Charlie and his great, great, great grandfather as they uncover why the flightless kiwi is still a bird. Through the whimsical drawings of Peter Reynolds, award-winning illustrator, see how Charlie comes to understand the origins of birds and why they are all so different from one another.

Exhibits

The exhibition engulfs you into interactive displays that show why dinosaurs are the ancestors of modern birds. By discovering the homologous bones of a Bambiraptor, and Archaeopteryx and a modern crow, visitors will witness evolution unfold. Interactive computers allow you to whiz through time at top speed to see breath-taking demonstrations of evolution. Experiencing colorful, engaging assortments of birds explain how natural selection works.

Discovery Area

Through a variety of discovery boxes, you'll play games, work puzzles and engage in handsp-on activities that enhance understandings of evolutionary concepts that also provide meaningful, multi-generational, minds-on play.