Two new exhibits will open at the AMNH this weekend. See the descriptions from the AMNH website below and check out the websites for more information.
Academy Award–winning actress Whoopi Goldberg will narrate the American Museum of Natural History’s spectacular new Hayden Planetarium Space Show, Journey to the Stars, which opens to the public at the Museum’s Rose Center for Earth and Space on Saturday, July 4, 2009. This is the latest Space Show produced by the Museum since the opening of the Rose Center for Earth and Space almost ten years ago, on February 19, 2000.
Journey to the Stars launches visitors through time and space to experience the life and death of the stars in our night sky. Audiences travel 13 billion years into the past, when the first stars were born, and witness brilliant supernova explosions that sent new kinds of matter coursing through the universe, into the atoms of our own bodies and the air we breathe. They visit the heart of our fiery Sun, and glimpse its eventual demise as it transforms into a massive red giant some five billion years in the future. Visitors tour stellar formations, explore new celestial mysteries, and discover the fascinating, unfolding story that connects us all to the stars.
Journey To The Stars, written by Emmy award winner Louise A. Gikow with a score by Robert Miller, follows Cosmic Collisions (2006) narrated by Robert Redford, The Search for Life: Are We Alone? (2002) narrated by Harrison Ford, and Passport to the Universe (2000) narrated by Tom Hanks.
Beavers follows a pair of these industrious creatures as they leave the shelter of their colony in search of a site to build a new home. The film chronicles their daily activities and the dangers they face as they find a site, build a dam, and start their own family.
When it was released in 1988, the giant screen production Beavers brought audiences closer than ever to the shy, mysterious creatures that have been steadfastly reshaping the landscapes of the planet for eons. Still in exhibition more than twenty years later, Beavers has become a cinema classic and world-wide family favorite. In 1989 it was awarded the Jury Prize and was co-winner of the Public Prize at the Second International Giant Screen Festival at La Geode, Paris; and in 2004, the film was inducted into the Maximum Image Hall of Fame by IMAX® theaters from around the world.
It seems on the 4th there is more to celebrate than just Independence Day.