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Mesozoic Monsters, Mammal sand Magnolias, the new Mesozoic Gal lery at the University of Nebraska State Museum, opens this month. It features some of the largest and most original exhibits throughout the world, said Judy Diamond, the museum’s assistant director of pub lic programs. The exhibits include an interac tive multimedia display where people can learn about eight famous sites around North America. The multi media exhibit has eight computer games, one for each of the locations. “Each of the games recreates some bit of real science behind each excur sion,” Diamond said. For example, the game from an excursion in Canon City, Colo., shows a screen with a pile of dinosaur bones. The object of the game is to build a complete stegosaurus skeleton. The most complete stegosaurus skeleton was found in Canon City. Each excavation site also has a five-minute movie that tells the his tory of each excursion. The movies are narrated by Mike Voorhies, the museum’s curator of vertebrate pale ontology. Each movie is also closed “The head of Exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History in New York called me when he saw photgraphs of our exhibits...” JUDY DIAMOND assistant director of public programs NU State Museum captioned for the hearing impaired. Two of the eight excavation sites are in Nebraska. The first flowering plant in the world was found in Pleas ant Dale, about an hour from Lin coln. The Pleasant Dale game shows a screen full of dirt anda small shovel. As the user clicks the shovel on dif ferent spots of the screen, different fossils appear, along with a picture of what the live plant looks like. A fossil of a mosasaur that was found in the Niobrara State Park also is in the gallery. Other exhibits include a table where museum visitors can search for microfossils and. identify what kind of animals the fossils came from. The floor itself is also an exhibit. “The floor is a trackway,” Dia mond said. “It’s achasmosaurusgame so you can see the story of how those tracks were laid down. A chasmosaurus is atypical of the kind of diriosaurs that might have been found in Nebraska.” Along one wall of the first room is a mural that is a recreation of a 90 mi 11 ion-year-old marine aquarium. All the creatures painted in the mural have their skeletons either mounted on the wall or are imbedded in the floor and covered with the heaviest glass available. A map along another wall shows that Nebraska was cov ered by water. The exhibits are already getting national attention, even though they haven’t officially been opened to the public. “The head of Exhibits at the Ameri can Museum of Natural History in New York called me when he saw photographs of our exhibits because he was interested in duplicating the exhibits,” Diamond said. ' Debra Meier, supervisor of exhib its, and Scott Clarke, coordinator of exhibits, designed the gallery. The $600,000 gallery officially opens Sept. 30 with a “Dig Site Spec tacular” dinner from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the State Museum. A family cel ebration will be Oct. 1 from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. The celebration will feature “Di nosaur Crazies” events, including dinosaur songs and music, dino-dunk ing activities, a hands-on dinosaur dig and a visit to the new gallery. 1M0# * ristor&nte ■ ■ ■ yl_Ijpg ■ _Daily Lunch Specials Only minutes from campus in the Hay market ; 808 “P" Street • 435-3889 - ' MONGOOSE M money weli. spent. /m) LMonker fl\' WMangar (PAiMI ftyLn BIKE SHOP iy.-n«»ia-«ciaUfla f»y 'Friendly Service with a personal touch* GRANDOPENING / End Of Season Bike Sale ~ Reduced Prices On All Bikes In Stock New location along the bike path at Normal and South 3855 South St. 486 0323 DOUGLAS THEATRES Movie Info: 441-0222 Call for Showtimes! 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