Oakes Museum at Messiah College to host open house
November 11th, 2011
GRANTHAM, Pa. (Nov. 11, 2011) — The Oakes Museum of Natural History at Messiah College will host an open house on Dec. 3 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Throughout the day, there will be docents stationed throughout the museum to talk about the displays and answer questions. Crafts and hands-on science activities will be available for children with parental supervision. Admission is free. For more information, contact Helen Cicero at 717-691-6082 or by email at hcicero@messiah.edu.
About the Oakes Museum
This fall, the museum is featuring a new flying machine exhibit, showing the organs, muscles, bones and feathers of a bird and how those body parts help them fly. The Stouffer Farm Excavation is also highlighted as an ongoing, archaeology project with Messiah’s history department featuring artifacts from a 2010 excavation. Lastly, the Alaskan Moose exhibit, new as of 2010, will allow visitors to come nose-to-nose with the latest member of the museum’s North American animal collection
The Oakes Museum is a unique experience for families, groups or classrooms. It features more than 40,000 specimens, including African and North American mammals, bird eggs, fish, seashells, minerals, insects and fossils. The creation of the 10,000-square foot museum was supported by Galen and Beulah Oakes, both graduates of Messiah College. The museum acquires the mammal exhibits through private donation and collects artifacts for the bird eggs and insect exhibits. The Oakes Museum promotes stewardship of the natural Earth and human responsibility for its care.
About Messiah College
Messiah College, a private Christian college of the liberal and applied arts and sciences, enrolls more than 2,900 undergraduate and graduate students. Established in 1909, the primary campus is located in Grantham, Pa., near the state capital of Harrisburg. A satellite campus affiliated with Temple University is located in Philadelphia.
