Permanent Exhibits Photo Gallery

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Encountering live butterflies.
Credit: Katie O. Clark/ANSP

  • Watch butterflies being born in Butterflies!
    Credit: Michael Persico

  • Paper Kite butterfly.
    Credit: ANSP

      Dinosaur Hall

      • Tyrannosaurus rex.
        Credit: Will Klein

      • Tenontosaurus tilletti, a plant-eater in Dinosaur Hall.
        Credit: Will Klein

      • Xiphactinus audax, a fish that lived 90-60 million years ago.

      • Dinosaur Hall.
        Credit: Will Klein

      • Dinosaur Hall.
        Credit: Will Klein

      • Chasmosaurus belli (left) and Corythosaurus casuarius (right) in Dinosaur Hall.
        Credit: Katie O. Clark/ANSP

      • Tyrannosaurus rex in Dinosaur Hall.
        Credit: Will Klein

      • Tyrannosaurus rex in Dinosaur Hall.
        Credit: Bill Raich/ANSP

      • The Big Dig.
        Credit: Bruce Tepper/ANSP

      • Dinosaur Prep Lab

        New mystery dinosaur fossils being uncovered in the Fossil Prep Lab through summer 2013.
        Credit: Michael Servedio/ANSP

      • Dioramas

        The Secrets of the Diorama exhibit reveals how the Academy’s historic dioramas were created.
        Credit: Erik Almas Photography

      • Visitors experience animals up close in stunning dioramas.
        Credit: Michael Persico

      • Front seat to nature-filled diorama.
        Credit: Will Kline

          Outside In

          Touch a live animal in Outside In.
          Credit: Michael Persico

        • The wonder of live animals in Outside In.
          Credit: Michael Persico

        • Peering at nature in Outside In.
          Credit: Michael Persico

            Science at the Academy

            Science at the Academy.
            Credit: Will Kline

          • Tiktaalik roseae discovered by an Academy scientist.
            Credit: Michael Persico

          • Science at the Academy.
            Credit: Will Kline

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