Nature Across the Breadth of Time
The Earth Gallery will feature the first T-REX exhibit in the country along with other unique exhibits that will focus on the earth and nature. Knowing natural history is the way we can educate museum visitors on how long it took the planet to give us what we now inhabit. The Earth Gallery will feature natural history from 4.6 billion years ago.
Nature’s Hourglass is a mini amphitheatre inside the Earth Gallery that can seat 50 visitors at a time. This virtual time machine will enthral visitors with two main features: First, an animated film called “Birthplace” directed by Butch Perez, that would feature 4.5 billion years of the Earth’s natural history in twelve-minutes; and second, “Simula”, a natural history of the Philippines to be co-created by ABS-CBN.
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As the film featured in Nature’s Hourglass, “Birthplace” is an original 12-minute animated film created by Award winning director. Layered on to the film will be a digitometer alongside it to indicate time passing as events in natural history take place in the film.
The first permanent exhibit on the “King of dinosaurs” in the country is named Stan, after Stan Sacrison who discovered the T-Rex bones in 1987. This 40-foot cast is made from the most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex bones ever unearthed. Underneath the exhibit is a simulated excavation where museum visitors can experience what it is like to dig fossils.
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In the Knowing Home: Floating Globe exhibit, visitors can watch a live feed that displays the current state of the planet earth – from active volcanoes to typhoons, wind currents to earthquakes. It will also show the effects that climate change has on the planet.
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The Canopy of Life aims to illustrate the interconnectedness of all life. It will feature zones that represent each of the five kingdoms of life: Monera, Protista, Plant, Animal, and Fungi. Each zone will include interactive designs that characterize the life forms that belong to that kingdom – for instance, what they look like, what they eat, and where they live.
The Fractal Wall is a series of LCD screens that show moving images generated by certain numbers keyed in by visitors. These patterns will start out small,but will grow to fill the screen. This enables visitors to recognize that these are patterns found everywhere in nature, revealing the power of mathematics as the language of nature.
What a Difference a Day Makes is an exhibit that collapses 4.6 billion years in 24 sets of images. It allows guests to interact with a multimedia wall to learn about the different stages of Earth’s development. “Floating” panels with graphics and text color code each stage.
The Air exhibit will recreate a mini tornado with which visitors can interact. By passing one’s hand through the vortex, visitors can temporarily interrupt the tornado’s formation. Once the visitor removes their hand, the wind currents will resume, forming a new tornado.
The Earthquakes exhibit demonstrates the power of the earth beneath us. Visitors can turn a crank to build up pressure, simulating magnitudes, causing a model to shake accordingly.
In the Fire/Volcano exhibit, visitors can see how volcanoes work by creating their own volcanic eruptions. A combination of mechanical controls and audiovisual screens will help explain the power of the volcano. It will also feature facts about the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption.
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