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These Special Exhibitions will be coming to our museum within the next year. Be sure to mark your calendar and plan your visit! They’ll be here and gone again before you know it. Want to keep up to date with all of our upcoming exhibitions, events, and programs? Sign up for our newsletter!


The Secret World Inside You

The Secret World Inside You

October 22, 2016—March 12, 2017
Our bodies are home to approximately 100 trillion bacteria living inside us and on us—a vast community known as the microbiome. The Secret World Inside You explores the rapidly-evolving science that is revealing the complexities of the human microbiome and reshaping our ideas about human health, offering new perspectives on common health problems including allergies, asthma, and obesity. Read a review here.


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