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Menninger, Holly [1], Stanton, Daniel [2].

New Bell Museum, MIN herbarium, and Surly Brewing Company.

We will start from the Mayo Civic Center and head north towards the St. Paul campus of University of Minnesota. Upon arrival on the St. Paul campus we will visit the Bell Museum and the University of Minnesota Herbarium. The trip will stop by the Surly Brewery, a popular gathering spot near campus on the way back. Moving to its new building summer 2018, the Bell Museum features a digital planetarium, high-tech exhibits, dioramas, outdoor learning experiences, and sustainable building design including a green roof and photovoltaic glass railings. Highlights in the main exhibits include world renowned wildlife dioramas by Walter Breckenridge, Francis Lee Jaques, and John Jarosz. The state-of-the-art planetarium features a dome constructed using the latest "seamless" technology, making it the first of its kind in the world. In our unique Touch & See Lab, visitors get hands-on access to natural history specimens—from 10,000 year-old fossils and living plants and animals to our honey bee hives. In addition, the new museum building has outdoor learning features including pollinator gardens, native wildflowers, grasses, shrubs and trees, a pond filled by rainwater collected from the museum’s roof, and large boulders representing Minnesota's major rocks types (basalt, limestone, sandstone) encourage visitors to climb and observe. In addition to touring the building trip leader will discuss public programing and outreach activities at the Bell. Participants will also have the opportunity to sample ice cream made from the campus dairy farm, including a custom flavor inspired by Bell Museum to celebrate grand opening of the new museum building.  The University of Minnesota Herbarium (MIN) is located in the Biological Sciences Center 0.9 miles from the museum and houses close to a million specimens. The record of historic flora of the Upper Midwest (including the Dakotas, Wisconsin, and southwestern Ontario) is among the best in the United States. Other significant historical collections include circumboreal and arctic flora, historic Pacific Island flora, early Amazonian flora, and early California plants. Our herbarium collections continue to expand with new specimens, particularly from the Minnesota Biological Survey (Minnesota Department of Natural Resources) and a tropical rain forest research program in Papua New Guinea from curator George Weiblen.
Website  https://www.bellmuseum.umn.edu/new-building  Ice cream and brewery purchases not incuded.  The trip will finish at the Surly Brewery just off the campus.

1 - Bell Museum, University of Minnesota
2 - University Of Minnesota, Ecology, Evolution And Behavior, 1479 Gortner Ave, Saint Paul, MN, 55108, United States

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Presentation Type: Activities:Field Trips
Session: FT11, New Bell Museum, MIN herbarium, and Surly Brewing Company
Location: Civic Center/Mayo Civic Center
Date: Sunday, July 22nd, 2018
Time: 1:00 PM
Number: FT11001
Abstract ID:1250
Candidate for Awards:None