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Featured Exhibit: Exquisite Creatures
Opening October 5, 2019
Experience how awe-inspiring the natural world can be through the intricate design of its inhabitants. Examine the connections between art, science, and nature by viewing Oregon-based artist Christopher Marley's stunning three-dimensional displays of rare specimens from all over the world.
Admission to Exquisite Creatures is included in Museum General Admission.
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Gingerbread Adventures
Included in General Admission | NOV 16, 2019 - JAN 2, 2020
Take a sweet and smart look at the science behind building gingerbread houses! Using the current Exquisite Creatures exhibit as inspiration, four local teams of expert bakers, architects, designers and construction firms worked together to make these holiday treats. Except for the base fand structural supports, each sculpture was built with entirely edible materials.
Vote for your favorite one at the voting kiosk. The team with the most votes will win the 2019 People's Choice Award.
Gingerbread Workshops! How Does the Cookie Crumble? Create a gingerbread house and see if it can withstand an earthquake! We have 3 workshops on Dec 12 & 17 (all ages) and Dec 19 (18+). Tickets are $20. Click on the dates for more information and to purchase tickets.
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Submarine Tour
During this 45-minute long guided tour, you will get to peer through a periscope, touch a torpedo, climb in a bunk in the crew's quarters, and much more. You will learn how a submarine works and get a glimpse into how a crew of 85 lived and worked within the Blueback's hull for months at a time.
Approx. 45 mins. | Ages 3 and above.
Superpower Dogs
Join an immersive IMAX adventure to experience the life-saving superpowers and extraordinary bravery of some of the world’s most amazing dogs. In this inspiring true story narrated by Chris Evans, our best friends are also real-life superheroes.
Journey around the globe to meet remarkable dogs who save lives and discover the powerful bond they share with their human partners. Follow ‘Halo’, a rookie puppy training to join one of the most elite disaster response teams in America. Meet ‘Henry’, an avalanche rescue expert in the mountains of British Columbia, ‘Reef’, a Newfoundland lifeguard with the Italian coastguard, ‘Ricochet’, a Californian surf legend helping people with special needs, and the Bloodhound brothers, ‘Tipper and Tony’, who are leading the fight to save endangered species in Africa.
As we discover the incredible abilities of dogs and the astonishing science behind their superpowers, we’ll never look at our best friends the same way again!
Duration: 45 mins. | Rating: All Ages
An IMAX Entertainment and Cosmic Picture film presented by Mars Petcare. Local support for Superpower Dogs provided by Banfield Pet Hospital.
Prehistoric Planet: Walking with Dinosaurs
Join narrator Benedict Cumberbatch on an extraordinary journey back in time to the Alaska of 70 million years ago. Through the latest in CGI technology, BBC Earth invites you to witness the most authentic dinosaur experience ever to be presented on the Giant Screen.
The adventure begins with a herd of large, plant-eating dinosaurs – Pachyrhinosaurus. The film follows their youngsters through the seasons and the challenges of growing up and establishing themselves in this prehistoric world. From the moment they hatch, they face predators, extremes of weather and natural disasters as they fight for survival.
Huge bone beds, found in Alaska and Alberta, reveal that pachyrhinosaurs roamed in vast herds. They very likely undertook epic migrations and had complex social lives, just as animals in large herds do today. Following them on their migrations, we encounter various other species they likely met and interacted with, including the fierce Nanuqsaurus, the top predator of the day.
For this immersive Giant Screen experience, the bodies and movements of the different Cretaceous era species have been precisely recreated from the fossil evidence. Their behaviour is derived from both palaeontology and a detailed knowledge of the behaviour of modern animals, giving these animated creatures an amazing degree of realism.
With its ambitious CGI visuals, Prehistoric Planet: Walking With Dinosaurs reveals the story behind the lives of the dinosaurs and the challenges they faced during a constant battle of survival in the ancient world.
Duration: 40 mins. | Rating: All Ages
Australia's Great Wild North
Australia’s Great Wild North is an epic voyage through some of the wildest territory on Earth. Home to rich wetlands and remote rainforests, it is a place of extremes where huge bushfires ravage the ancient landscape during the summer and ferocious thunderstorms bring torrential rain and flooding over the winter monsoon season.
The area’s coasts and rivers harbor several species of shark, while the plains are guarded by territorial buffalo and venomous snakes. In a land once traversed by dinosaurs, one of their deadly relatives still thrives there today: the salt water crocodile. The region’s apex predator, the salt water crocodile has inhabited the planet in almost identical form for over 200 million years.
From the wild Kimberly coast, across mysterious Arnhem Land and on to the tropical rainforests of Cape York, journey through some of the world’s most beautiful and rugged landscapes in this incredible scientific adventure.
Duration: 40 mins. | Rating: All Ages
Starry Nights Live!
Learn about the interesting stories of the constellations and others in this live presentation in OMSI's Kendall Planetarium. It is not just stars everyone can see in the night sky—planets, constellations, zodiac, shooting stars and satellites are all there if you know when and where to look. Navigate by the stars and discover how you can become a backyard astronomer. Topics will change monthly and graphics will be programmed accordingly. All shows are hosted and narrated live by OMSI space science educator.
One World, One Sky: Big Bird's Adventure
Elmo and Big Bird live in the United States and Hu Hu Zhu lives far away in China, but they discovered that they still see the same stars at night! The word for star in Chinese is “xing xing” (pronounced sing sing). How many “xing xing” do you see in this sky?
When Elmo and Hu Hu Zhu "travel" to the moon, they discover some basic but surprising scientific facts. For example, they can't fly a kite there because there is no wind. The fuzzy friends then excitedly realize that children like to fly kites in both China and the United States!
Superpower Dogs | 3D
Join an immersive IMAX adventure to experience the life-saving superpowers and extraordinary bravery of some of the world’s most amazing dogs. In this inspiring true story narrated by Chris Evans, our best friends are also real-life superheroes.
Journey around the globe to meet remarkable dogs who save lives and discover the powerful bond they share with their human partners. Follow ‘Halo’, a rookie puppy training to join one of the most elite disaster response teams in America. Meet ‘Henry’, an avalanche rescue expert in the mountains of British Columbia, ‘Reef’, a Newfoundland lifeguard with the Italian coastguard, ‘Ricochet’, a Californian surf legend helping people with special needs, and the Bloodhound brothers, ‘Tipper and Tony’, who are leading the fight to save endangered species in Africa.
As we discover the incredible abilities of dogs and the astonishing science behind their superpowers, we’ll never look at our best friends the same way again!
Duration: 45 mins. | Rating: All Ages
An IMAX Entertainment and Cosmic Picture film presented by Mars Petcare. Local support for Superpower Dogs provided by Banfield Pet Hospital.
Oceans: Our Blue Planet
Presented by BBC Earth, Oceans: Our Blue Planet takes audiences on a global odyssey to explore the largest and least explored habitat on earth. New ocean science and technology has allowed us to go further into the unknown than we ever thought possible.
From the coastline to deeper, more mysterious worlds, the untold stories of the oceans' most astonishing creatures are revealed. In the warm coastal shallows, viewers meet surfing dolphins, and an ingenious tusk fish that uses a tool to crack open its food. In the enchanted sea-forests, a cunning octopus uses shells as armour from predators.
As we journey through our oceans, we share these extraordinary discoveries and uncover a spectacular world of life beneath the waves.
Duration: 40 mins. | Rating: All Ages
Planets Tonight
New at OMSI! Some of the best telescope views of the night sky come from the planets, particularly the five planets visible from your own backyard. But, you wonder, which planets are out tonight and where should I look to see them? Learn which planets are visible tonight and where to look for them is what this live show is all about. Come join us and discover which planets we can see tonight!
Laser Holiday Magic
It's the holiday season at OMSI's Kendall Planetarium. This highly popular program features a mix of everyone's favorite holiday music, and gives new meaning to the term "holiday lights."
Duration: 25 minutes | Rating: All Ages