COMING SOON! On Track in Memphis

On Exhibit October 2-24, 2010

Train enthusiasts across the Mid-South, rejoice! On Track in Memphis is back at the Pink Palace Museum with more trains, longer tracks and fun for the whole family. Get on board for an exciting ride into the world of model trains. This fun and colorful exhibit of model trains comes courtesy of the Memphis Society of Model Railroaders. Model railroading has everything!  Trains, travel, people, buildings, trees, deserts, lakes, bridges, towns...anything you can imagine. Kids and adults of all ages can appreciate the time and energy it takes to build and run such intricate, mobile landscapes. On Track in Memphis is all about trains...with model railroad layouts of different sizes or “scales,” important railroad memorabilia from the Memphis area, and demonstrations of model
making, painting, designing and more!

www.memphismuseums.org

Jean-Michel Cousteau Presents Dolphins and Whales: Tribes of the Ocean

 Showing in the CTI IMAX Theater in the Pink Palace Museum through March 4, 2011

Presented by Jean-Michel Cousteau, DOLPHINS AND WHALES:  Tribes of the Ocean is a new, entertaining underwater film narrated by actress and environmentalist Daryl Hannah that will appeal to moviegoers of all ages.

Produced for IMAX theatres, it draws audiences into an immersive experience with small and giant cetaceans while delivering a compelling conservation message in favor of their protection. Dolphins and whales are indeed facing the greatest challenge of all: to survive the destruction of their habitat and depletion of food resources.  Contrary to common belief, small and giant cetaceans are not safe even though measures have been taken over the years to protect them from whaling fleets and over-fishing. They are also affected through the food chain. They gather the toxins that accumulate through the fishes or small planktons they eat which absorb heavy metals and pesticides. Combined with climate change and continued ocean pollution, the threat to cetaceans has never been so serious.

Narrated by Daryl Hannah (Kill Bill 1&2, Blade Runner, Splash), DOLPHINS AND WHALES takes audiences on an immersive and highly emotional adventure for a close encounter with the surviving tribes of the ocean. Through the powerful IMAX theatre medium and stunning images, viewers will discover these animals’ lives and habitats as never-before-seen through a series of sequences, each one dedicated to a different cetacean species. Audiences will explore many little-known aspects of these fascinating and fragile creatures capable of sophisticated communication and social interaction.

Dolphins and Whales: Tribes of the Ocean Video

Surviving: The Body of Evidence

 On Exhibit Through September 19, 2010

You are a survivor. Your body holds the evidence.   The process of evolution and its outcomes have had a profound impact on every aspect of your daily life.  And the process continues.  The Pink Palace Museum invites you on a journey of self-discover, through Surviving: The Body of Evidence, an interactive, multimedia exhibition that starts, and ends, with YOU. 
You'll start at Fit for Life, an introduction to your inherited human strengths and capabilities. 
Then, travel back millions of years to meet ancestors from now-extinct species, as you consider Our Place in the Natural World.  Touch and examine more than 100 casts of fossil bones from the primate and human evolutionary record as you move forward, Finding Our Human Ancestors.
Encounter some of the world's most brilliant scientists and revolutionary thinkers as they put voice to their breakthrough theories in dramatic re-enactments, in Witnessing Evolution.
Then, find out more about the particulars -- why your back may ache, your son's wisdom teeth are impacted, or your sister had trouble giving birth.  Take stock in the imperfect, but remarkable, human being that you are today, in We Are Not Perfect, But We Are OK. 
Genetics, evolutionary biologists, nanotechnology engineers, even school children, share what they think in We Keep Evolving -- and invite you to make a prediction about our shared evolutionary future.

Surviving: The Body of Evidence video