

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Field Trip: Museum of Life and Science
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 03 Jun, 2026 at 10:00 am (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Field Trip to the Museum of Life and Science
6/3/2026
Opens at 10am

Costs:
General (Ages 16-64) – $24
Seniors (Ages 65+) – $22
Children (Ages 3 – 15) – $19
Children (Ages 2 and under) – Free
U.S. Military (with ID) – $22
Train Tickets (Ages 3+)- $6

The Museum of Life and Science is an 84-acre (340,000 m2) science museum located in Durham, North Carolina, United States.

Main Museum Building
The 2-story main building of the museum houses exhibits about weather, sound, math, health, building and engineering, and native North Carolina wildlife. The building also includes a 6 years and younger play area and a hands-on lab that does frequently rotating topics and activities.

The Farmyard
The farmyard is home to a variety of farm animals including a donkey, goats, chickens, bulls, and pigs. The more recent additions to the farmyard are several alpacas. The farmyard offers guests the chance to see how zoos provide enrichment for animals as well as weekly up-close experiences guided by animal keepers. There are several other hands-on activities within the farmyard.

Hideaway Woods
In 2015, the museum opened Hideaway Woods, a two-acre, nature discovery environment featuring eight tree houses, a flowing stream bed, and fanciful nature sculptures. The space also includes hammocks and an enclosed area for younger explorers. The play zones throughout this exhibit emphasize the importance of nature play.

Aerospace
The Project Mercury space capsule used in the November 29, 1961 Mercury-Atlas 5 mission, on which the chimpanzee Enos became the only chimpanzee and third primate to orbit the Earth, is exhibited at the museum
The MLS has historically been most notable for its Aerospace exhibit, which focuses on the early NASA space program. Most of the artifacts on display are on long-term loan from the National Air and Space Museum. Many of these are significant Project Apollo-related artifacts, such as a Moon rock, Neil Armstrong's dosimeter, an Apollo Command Module test vehicle, a portion of an Apollo Lunar Rover, and a full-sized mock-up of a Lunar Module. The MLS came into possession of these artifacts through the influence of James E. Webb, the second NASA administrator and a native of North Carolina. Instrumental in the acquisition of the NASA artifacts was Richard Wescott, the executive director of the museum at the time. Aerospace includes a hands-on aerodynamics space, Launch Lab, that features paper airplane launchers and wind tunnels.

BioQuest
In the mid-1990s, the museum announced a 4 phase expansion to their outdoor exhibits they called BioQuest. BioQuest included the construction of new exhibit spaces: Magic Wings Butterfly House, Explore the Wild, Catch the Wind, and the Dinosaur Trail and Dig.

Magic Wings Butterfly House
A major attraction at MLS is the three-story glass Magic Wings Butterfly House, which opened April 17, 1999, a butterfly zoo and tropical conservatory featuring a community of several hundred tropical butterflies representing dozens of species, as well as an array of tropical plants. The Bayer CropScience Insectarium, located in the Magic Wings Butterfly House, features exotic insects from around the world. This exhibit was the first of the BioQuest expansion to be completed.

Explore the Wild
Explore the Wild is home to American black bears, red wolves, lemurs, and radiated tortoises. It features a 900-foot (270 m) boardwalk over a preserved 6-acre (24,000 m2) natural space, plus many multimedia exhibits. The exhibit opened in May 2006. The museum is part of preservation efforts for the red wolves and radiated tortoises. In spring 2017 the red wolf pair housed at the museum had a litter of four pups. These pups accounted for 2% of the entire red wolf population at the time. As part of the red wolf Specific Survival Plan the museum participates in, the family of wolves was moved to another facility in New York and a new pair of wolves came to the museum. Spring 2018 brought a litter of two pups to the new red wolf pair. The four wolves remain at the museum for the time being. In 2018 the museum joined efforts for radiated tortoise conservation after the April 20, 2018 discovery of 10,000 housed illegally in Madagascar. The museum hosted a fundraiser to raise money for the tortoises at the museum and a conservation group in August 2018.

Sailboat pond
Catch the Wind opened in the Summer of 2007 and features seven exhibits showing how the wind influences our environment.

Seed tower
A 30-foot (9 m) interactive tower elevates oversized representations of seed pods of trees native to North Carolina and drops them demonstrating how wind affects their travel. The centerpiece of the area is a 5,000-square-foot (500 m2) elliptical sailboat pond where visitors can sail remote controlled sailboats.

Kiosks throughout the area allow visitors to listen to audio tracks of narratives, poems, and stories about the wind.

Dinosaur Trail
Long a local favorite, the original Prehistoric Trail featured a number of life-size plaster amphibians, reptiles and dinosaurs set along a woodland path. The Brontosaurus is visible from Murray Avenue. According to a 1965 pamphlet, the trail's original lineup featured a Seymouria, an Eryops, a Dimetrodon, an Araeoscelis, a Saltoposuchus, a Yaleosaurus, a Plateosaurus, and a Camptosaurus. Later additions included a T-Rex and a Triceratops. The trail also provided models of a mammoth and a rhinoceros for scale. The creatures were built by Richard Wescott over a four-year period, culminating with the exhibit's completion in 1967. It was renamed the Dinosaur Trail in 1986. While most of the models still exist, the trail was rendered largely impassable by Hurricane Fran in 1996 and has since fallen into disrepair. Between 2006 and 2009, local residents worked with the museum to remove some of the debris from the trail.
The brontosaurus model was vandalized during the early morning hours of June 1, 2009, when vandals removed a large portion of the neck and the entire head. At a later date, the head was found, and the Brontosaurus was repaired and improved through a partnership with the local Northgate Park neighborhood.
The final phase in the BioQuest expansion project, a new dinosaur trail opened in July 2009. The new trail is housed within the northern tract of the museum, separate from the original trail located near Ellerbe Creek. It features life size models of Albertosaurus, Styracosaurus, Troodon, Maiasaura, Stygimoloch, Alamosaurus, Leptoceratops, and Edmontonia. The dinosaur trail also features a full-sized reclining juvenile Parasaurolophus built for visitors to climb, making it especially popular. An interactive fossil dig area is also available where shovels and screens are available for children to search for, and take home, sharks teeth, coral, other fossils brought up from an abandoned mine in Eastern North Carolina which was once part of the ocean floor.[9]

Earth Moves
The "Earth Moves" exhibit, opened in 2019, provides an immersive experience in geology and its relation to everyday life. Visitors can explore a cave made from sandstone, change the flow of a 20-foot waterfall and splash in it, make towers, walls and arches of stone, and sculpt sand.

The Train
All aboard the Ellerbe Creek Railway for an old-time train ride through the Museum grounds! Take a 10-minute ride through the Museum park on our beloved scale replica C.P. Huntington locomotive. As you make two laps around the track, keep an eye out for creative art installations that encourage you to notice your surroundings in a new and whimsical way. 
With our wheelchair accessible ramp and railcar, everyone can enjoy the ride.

Plus much more!
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Durham
- **state**: NC
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Museum of Life and Science
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- **full address**: Museum of Life and Science, Museum of Life and Science, 433 Murray Ave,Durham, North Carolina, United States

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