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Water: H₂O = Life is organized by the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and the Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, in collaboration with Great Lakes Science Center, Cleveland; The Field Museum, Chicago; Instituto Sangari, São Paulo, Brazil; National Museum of Australia, Canberra; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada; San Diego Natural History Museum, and Science Centre Singapore with PUB Singapore.

For more information about Water: H₂O = Life, please contact:

Jeff Hirz, Marketing Coordinator
Great Lakes Science Center
501 Erieside Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114
216-696-3823
hirzj@glsc.org


Exhibition News Releases

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Fog Curtain
Great Lakes Science Center invites the whole family to explore the beauty of water at the exhibition
Water: H₂O = Life, on view November 14, 2009 through April 11, 2010. Images of the word “water” in different languages projected on a dramatic fog screen greet visitors as they enter the exhibition.



Water Sculpture
Water is a remarkable natural substance that is found in
all three physical states—liquid, solid, and gas—under conditions normally found on Earth, and visitors can touch and feel all three phases with a hands-on, water-cycle sculpture in the exhibition, Water: H₂O = Life at the American Museum of Natural History.



Water Planet
Science on a Sphere—actual moving images of the Earth from
space projected on a six-foot-diameter globe—is one of the
highlights of the exhibition Water: H₂O = Life at Great Lakes
Science Center. As visitors observe the breathtaking views of our blue planet, they gain a deeper appreciation of water as a
world-shaping force and our most precious resource.




Slot Canyon
A labyrinthine walk-through reconstruction of a
water-carved slot canyon gives visitors a deeper appreciation of water’s ability to physically sculpt our surroundings in the “Blue Planet” section of the
exhibition Water: H₂O = Life.



Polar Bear
An eight-foot-long, lifelike model of a polar bear perched on its own ice floe is a focal point of the “Water Everywhere” section of Water: H₂O = Life at Great Lakes Science Center. Visitors discover how rising global temperatures and melting Arctic ice are making life difficult for the world’s
polar bear population.



Cambodian Fishing Village
One of the dioramas featured in the exhibition
Water: H₂O = Life re-creates a Cambodian fishing village floating on Tonle Sap, the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia. Visible under the “water” is a model of the Mekong giant catfish (Pangasianodon gigas), a threatened species that lives in Tonle Sap.



Water Bottle Wall
This stack of half-liter bottles graphically portrays
America’s infatuation with bottled water. Globally, consumption nearly doubled between 1997 and 2005, and the U.S. is the largest total consumer of bottled water.
The bottles shown in this circle could hold the amount of bottled water consumed by the average North American in 2005—about 80 liters (21gallons). The hidden costs of bottled water are discussed in the exhibition Water: H₂O = Life at Great Lakes Science Center.



Water Quiz

Visitors to the exhibition Water: H₂O = Life at Great Lakes Science Center can test their “H2O IQ” in an interactive game that challenges them to use less water in their daily lives.




Mono Lake Tufa
Replicas of massive towers made from tufa—a kind of limestone—are featured in a walk-through diorama
re-creating the unusual landscape of Mono Lake,California, for the exhibition Water: H₂O = Life. Although tufa towers grow underwater, many are visible today around Mono Lake because water levels fell dramatically once water diversions began in 1941.



Wetlands Diorama
This diorama of a wetlands ecosystem fringing the shores of Lake Michigan in the exhibition Water: H₂O = Life features numerous detailed models including reeds, grasses, a snapping turtle, pumpkinseed sunfish and a yellow perch. Fringing wetlands like this one, constantly threatened by development, are an important natural water purifier.