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Oil painting of the profile of a steamship on the water in front of green hills; the boat is flying an American flag and towing a sloop with a tall mast, the sloop's back half cut off from view by the edge of the canvas.

Object Story: The Steamboat "Peter Crary"

A highly-detailed “ship portrait” of a steamboat pulling another vessel.

Icon with a light bulb, star, and shapes above a pencil.

Activity: Twenty-First Century Object

Reimagine an object from the eighteenth or nineteenth century into one for the twenty-first.

Tin candle lamp with wire stem topped with finger or hanging loop; a tin tray holds the two candle holder and slides up and down the stem.

Object Story: A Short History of Lighting

Examine a range of lighting implements from candles and rushlights to oil burning lamps.

Icon with a light bulb, star, and shapes above a pencil.

Create a Herbarium Specimen

Preserve information about a particular plant for future generations.

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Explore Plant Adaptations in Your Community!

Take a walk through your neighborhood, local park, or anywhere else where plants grow. What adaptations do you observe?

Olive penjing against a white wall.

Penjing

“The goal is to create the sense of a tree as though you took it out of nature” —Che Zhao Sheng

Botanical Videos

A hill in a garden. At the base of the hill are rocks, spherical green and yellow succulents, and purple flowers. On the hill are succulents with bright orange flowers. At the top of the hill are tall trees.

Desert Garden

Over the past 100 years, gardeners have transformed the Desert Garden into a 10-acre expanse with over 2000 species of succulents and desert plants.

Printed illustration of a flea.

Micrographia

Discovering a Hidden Universe and Creating Science

Two illustrations of the moon showing a jagged line down the center. The top illustration has the line almost exactly in the middle and the bottom illustration has the line slightly to the left. To the left of the lines the moon is dark and to the right of the lines the moon is light.

Sidereus Nuncius

Galileo Galilei began a scientific revolution when he shared a new way of studying the universe in his book Siderius Nuncius.

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