Visitors should check at the Admissions Desk for animal feeding schedules and other demonstrations by museum staff. After passing through the Main Lobby, museum visitors find themselves in the Exhibit Gallery, where traveling exhibits are housed. Next door is the ABC NewsChannel 11 Weather Exhibit, where visitors can watch a "tornado" form, and the Tree House Learning Center. Visitors will then find themselves in the Geology and Fossils Hall, opening into the Carolina Wildlife room, which houses live native North Carolina species of mammals, reptiles, fish, and birds.
Visitors next enter the Aerospace Development Laboratory, which features plenty of hands-on experiments as well as a real Apollo command module test vehicle and Neil Armstrong's isolation space suit. Next door is Life's Devices, which demonstrates how animals' bodies have adapted to their lifestyles, and includes many skeletons, live animals, and mechanical tools.
Visitors can ride the elevator situated between the Aerospace Development Laboratory and Life's Devices upstairs to the Aerospace Overlook, Tech Effects, and Data Earth, where visitors can construct a building of wooden pieces and see whether it can withstand an earthquake, and experiment with computer weather simulations and global communications devices. Before riding the elevator back downstairs, visitors can learn about engineering and experiment with hands-on exhibits in the Science Arcade as well as visit the Scientifica Discovery Room.
Visitors can then ride the elevator downstairs and pass through Life's Devices to Small Science, where young children and their adult caregivers can play with soap bubbles, race balls, and play with shapes, patterns, and colours. Older children and adults without accompanying children are not allowed in, and can only observe the fun.
These exhibits are not all that the Museum of Life and Science has to offer. Visitors then exit the museum to its many outdoors exhibits. Visitors can then make music, play with water, and dig for real fossils in Loblolly Park, enter a railway car, and view animals at the Farmyard. Visitors can ride the Ellerbee Creek Railway for an additional $1.50 per person, have lunch at the Caterpillar Café, and observe red wolves, black bears, and hawks at the outdoor Bear Overlook. Visitors should check at the Admissions Desk for animal feeding schedules and other demonstrations by museum staff.
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