The L. Gale Lemerand Wing

Currently on Display

L. Gale Lemerand Wing, Marzullo Gallery, & Children's Museum
Open October 11, 2025 through March 29, 2026    

Join us at the Museum of Arts and Sciences for an exhibit that’s come to life! For a limited time, our children’s museum will be populated with prehistoric beasts, launching you back in time to the Cretaceous, where you can experience favorites like Dilophosaurus, Velociraptor, and more.

Along with the life-like animatronics, you can learn exactly what it means to be a paleontologist through activities focusing on how to safely excavate fossils and mix and match dinosaur species. You can continue your Jurassic journey by peaking into the past with Pangea and an augmented reality sandbox to learn how Earth’s climate has changed through time. Through the movement of the dinosaurs, you can learn how dinosaurs’ tails moved, how Pachycephalosaurus would butt heads, and what a gizzard even is. Our bravest prehistoric explorers can climb inside a T. rex for an unforgettable photo-op!

Expedition: Dinosaur!® was created by Stage Nine Design and is distributed by Exhibits Development Group.”

L. Gale Lemerand Wing & the Elaine and Thurman Gillespy, Jr. Gallery
Open April 5, 2025 through January 4, 2026    

Stephen Shooster, aka Shoosty, is a fine artist and writer whose media ranges from digital to paper and most recently, silk. His work displays multiple themes and styles, concentrating on music, landscapes, and conceptual art. It was during a post-surgery convalescence that Shoosty encountered what would become his most fanciful muse – the bug. Inspired by the sacred scarabs of ancient Egypt, Shoosty saw the variety of anatomy and armature of these creatures as a boundless source of imaginative creation. Since then, Shoosty Bugs have taken on a life and movement of their own. The Museum of Arts & Sciences is excited to host Shoosty Bugs: An Art Infestation, featuring digital creations that demonstrate the artist’s innovative fusion of metamorphic insects inhabiting lengths of color-saturated silks.

Karshan Center of Graphic Art & the Elaine and Thurman Gillespy, Jr. Gallery
Open June 14, 2025 through October 19, 2025

Where can you see a butterfly with a five foot wingspan, or a longhorn beetle with antennae more than twelve feet across? The answers can be found amongst the enormous sculptures on display in BUGS: Outside the Box. Scientifically exact, with a keen attention to detail, the exhibit features a virtual army of giant bugs with one aim in mind – educating the public and shining a light on museum collections, taxonomy, and the power of magnification.

Bugs: Outside the Box was created with the talents of many, and in close collaboration between Outhouse Exhibit Services and Lorenzo Possenti of Ecofauna.