“Fossil Hunters: The Search for Our Past,” a special exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, will transport visitors to the badlands of Ethiopia and put them right in the middle of an important fossil hunt. The exhibit opens June 1 and will run until October 28, 2019.
The exhibit will introduce visitors to the museum’s very own team of researchers, whose quest is to fill in our ancestral family tree. It will give guests a glimpse of the unforgiving environment and rugged camp life these scientists brave, and the thrill that comes with discovery.
Fossil Hunters features landmark discoveries by researchers led by Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie, the museum’s curator of physical anthropology and one of the world’s foremost experts in paleoanthropology. The museum-produced exhibit is an immersive blend of science, culture and adventure featuring interactive, hands-on exhibits, stunning photography and artifacts from the Ethiopian research site, Woranso-Mille.
Visitors will be virtually transported to the Afar desert of Ethiopia, where they will see how teams of fossil hunters search for clues to our evolutionary puzzle. They will learn where fossils are found, how they are detected and extracted from the surface.
For more information, go to cmnh.org.
