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Critter Corner

Check out our poikilotherms (cold-blooded animals) in Critter Corner! Featuring reptiles, arachnids, snakes and more like Scooter the Axolotl, Gourdy the Pumpkin Patch Tarantula and Maize the Corn Snake. Animal feedings happen at approximately 11am every day. Critter Corner includes plant and insect basics such as a worm compost bin and information on how we breed fruit flies to feed all of the animals.

Other Exhibits

STEAMlab

MSC's high-tech makerspace!

The STEAMlab provides open-ended learning, supervised by STEAMlab staff, with explorations into laser cutting, 3D printing, machine take-apart, robotics, & more! Make your really great idea into a real thing!

Wild Alaska

Exploring climate change

A collaboration between two Bozeman schools: Peak Academy and Bozeman Field School, Wild Alaska explores the effects of climate change on our nation's largest and most diverse state. Through the eyes of students in grades 4-12, discover the variety of organisms that live in Alaska's 32 diverse ecosystems: hear sounds the students heard during their trip; read from their science journals and pretend to fish on one of Alaska's many streams. Learn about this big, vast and glorious state!

LiGHTLAB

Discover light, optics and photonics

Discover light, light waves and how they are used to solve real world problems - like self driving cars - in today's world. Thirteen different exhibits allow you to explore the world of light through lasers, holograms, prisms, color and more.