And welcome back, everyone to wake up a chatter
and bake up a chat to the American Museum of
Natural History has been educating science lovers of all ages
for over 100 and 50 years. And Shannon Lanier
got a guided tour of their brand new wing.
Take a look. Wow, this place is amazing
. I'm here at the American Museum of Natural History
to check out their brand new exhibit in visible world
, which is in the Guilder Center and that's also
brand new. So I'm going to be joined by
the Provost of Science here, Dr Sheryl to learn
more about this. First of all, what is
this place? It is amazing. Well, we're
standing here in the Guilder Center for Science Education and
Innovation. It's the newest wing of the American Museum
of Natural History. And you're in this beautiful atrium
. It's like, it's like you're outside, you're
in a cavern and you can just see um these
very, very uh shapes and, and it's just
all hand done and you can, it feels like
you just feel the erosion. You. Some people
think they're like inside a sculpture. It is fantastic
. It feels like an immersive experience like we in
a cocoon or something like an ant mouth or just
part of nature, right? As soon as you
enter, you feel like you're part of nature.
So, what are some of the other exhibits that
we'll see here? I see a big beehive back
there. A lot of bugs and fossils. What
can we expect in the, in the Gilder Center
? There's a new exhibit on, it's an insectarium
that features live insects, pinned insects, insect models
, media and it learns all you can learn all
about insects, including insects of New York City and
what they do on the second floor. We have
a live butterfly vivarium. So you enter the butterfly
habitat and right here, what you're looking at is
our collections core. So the Gilder Center houses about
10% of our museum collection. So it's about four
million specimens have been rehoused in the Gilder Center itself
and my kids love fossils. So I'm glad you
still incorporated this. Oh yeah, we collect all
kinds of things. We explain why we collect.
And what you're seeing here is one of over 30
little exhibits that explain the research that we do with
our collections. So we're not only showing the public
our collections. So the evidence for our science,
but what we do with it and what you can
learn more fossils. So here's some of what you
guys are studying here, just not displaying but actually
studying all of this Right. The science behind it
. What is a science? So, as a
museum, our science is all specimen based. So
you can see our specimen storage behind in those cabinets
. That's, those are, those are all compact
shelving. So they're all on, on a track
and you can move and they move. Right.
So it's a way we can put lots and lots
and lots of shelving in here. Just think if
you got a lot of shoes, you want one
of those. Exactly. Now the museum has been
around for like 100 and 54 years. Right.
How would you say it's evolved or changed since the
beginning? Well, the museum has evolved with the
times, but we still stick to our core mission
of, we do research, we do scientific research
and we educate people about science. And so the
Gilder Center gives us whole new ways to do that
. And so with these interactive exhibits, we have
high tech classrooms in here that are going to train
the future scientists and citizens of the future. Well
, I can't wait to get more into this museum
. The Gilder Center is an amazing place. You
definitely have to check it out. It's open now
right here in New York City and when we come
back in about 30 minutes, we're also going to
check out the invisible room. Ok. It's the
whole world. You're going to love it. Oh
, I'm so jealous. This, by the way
, just opened up near my apartment and I've been
wanting to go for so long. Our thanks to
Shane More from the American Museum of Natural History's Invisible
World Exhibit is coming up and just the outside of
it is just so architecturally stunning his side too.
It cost$465 million. It's 230,000 square feet.
You, you live right by there. You have
to go. I have to take my 13 year
old who would absolutely love my dog loves all the
flowers that are in the front of it, doing
the job and everything. Welcome back. For much
news. I'm Baker. We're live in Lower Manhattan
. Thank you for joining us on this June 1st
and the American Museum of Natural History has been educating
science lovers of all ages for over 100 and 50
years. And Shannon and got the chance to check
out their latest interactive exhibit. Take a look.
This giant grouper is larger than I am. One
of the amazing things here at the American Museum of
Natural History. And I'm still joined by Dr Cheryl
, the Provost of Science here to learn a little
bit more about not only the Gilder Center, which
we're in, but also their brand new exhibit in
visible world. So talk to us about what we're
going to see. Well, what you're going to
see is first, you're going to see what we
call the pre show that's going to sort of prepare
you. That shows the emphasis here is that all
life is connected. So you're going to see how
we're all connected through DNA, through predator prey.
Um So you're gonna see all that and then we're
gonna, then you go into the invisible world,
immersive experience, you're gonna see things that you would
not see anywhere else because either the phenomena are happening
too fast or too slow or too big or too
small. So in this experience you're gonna magnify,
you're gonna reduce, you're gonna fly. Oh We're
gonna, let's go, we gotta check this out
. We're gonna go inside, we'll be back.
Doctor Cheryl. That was pretty cool. I love
how interactive it was. I felt like I was
part of the experience stepping on the floor and they
just reacted to me, tell me you were part
of the experience. So no two shows are exactly
the same because of this interactive experience and the interactive
experience, it's fun. It makes you look a
little closer, but it's also underscores that all life
is connected and we are part of the environment.
So we interact with the environment and the interact and
we have an impact on the environment. So it's
more cohesive. It sort of like life imitating art
because that is what happens. We do have a
direct impact on what happens to our environment. Is
that one of the things you hope people take away
from this exhibit? I think that's something we want
people to take away from the entire Kilter Center experience
is that here, you're learning about science. You're
also, and we're trying to really address some of
the big, big issues of the day climate change
, the biodiversity crisis. So, you know,
technology innovation, what we can do to mitigate.
I think all of that comes into play when you're
at the Gilder Center and Invisible World is just one
of the ways you can experience that. Well,
I saw a lot of people walking around their experience
and they're excited in there as well. What has
the reaction been like for people seeing this for the
first time? They're just honestly, they're just bowled
over. They've never seen anything like it. And
even for scientists, we are absolutely amazed at this
new way to present information. Well, I hope
everyone gets an opportunity to come out and see the
Gilder Center and the Invisible World Exhibit for themselves.
It's brand new, just opened right here in New
York City. So definitely come, check it out 00:07:41.629 --> and.