Discovery Gallery highlights
- Polar Bears: Get a sense of the scale and power of the largest bear in the world! Two real, full-sized polar bears are poised to give guests an up-close and personal view of this beautiful, vulnerable species.
- Tchaenhotep: The remains of a mummified Egyptian woman who lived in the late 25th to early 26th century (700-625 BC). Her sarcophagus is nearly 3,500 years old.
- Gemini Trainer: Project Gemini, NASA’s second human spaceflight program, fell between projects Mercury and Apollo (1961-1966.) While our Gemini space capsule never left the ground, it helped many astronauts in the 1960s prepare for their space missions.