Dilophosaurus, a dinosaur that walked along the shorelines of the Connecticut Valley 200 million years ago, is the new star of the permanent science galleries. Located in a brand new diorama, this full-scale model is housed in a scene depicting a lakeside forest, replete with cutaway views to the aquatic creatures - such as the coelacanth fish - that shared the habitat during the Jurassic Period.
The exhibition team is working on the dioramas for the Marine Ecosystem Gallery. Greg Beise has sketched out the background for a diorama that focuses on the longer-term spring tide - neap tide cycle and that includes nesting horseshoe crabs, which come ashore to lay their eggs when the tides are near their highest.
A whole range of colors, light grays, blue, brown, and green shades, have brought the diorama background to life. Greg is now blending in the final details as he works towards completion. The Exhibition Department is on a tight deadline behind the closed gallery doors 🚪. The staff at the Bruce is very focused on getting ready to open up the Science Galleries by November 2021!
The exhibition team, Dan Buckley and Anne von Stuelpnagel, have been working in the Geology Gallery on the final exhibit details, with sheer force and their creative ability to display all the rocks and safely secure the displays. First, deep drilling of the rocks to secure screws for the mountings, creating the mounts, artistically painting the clasps and the mounting platforms to blend everything into the displayed specimen rocks. There is a tremendous amount of work that no one will know but will appreciate when the grand display is finished.
The Geology Gallery will be the rock cycle. Displays will show how igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks can be formed, destroyed, and recycled into new rocks. Visitors can see rocks altered by faulting, folding, and fracturing. The displays will also feature rocks transformed by erosion from wind, the action of river currents, and melting and recrystallization.
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