The whales are coming to the Quinte Museum of Natural History.
After its extremely popular opening exhibit last year, the Trenton museum is set to open for its new season Wednesday with Diving Deep: A Tale of Whales Through Time.
The museum’s Executive Director Deanna Way says after last year’s extremely popular dinosaur exhibit, they put a lot of thought into the next exhibit.
“We sat down with the folks at Research Casting International and we, you know, we went to the table and we talked about what it is that we could do and whales just kept popping up. They’ve worked on whales many a time before so it was just a very exciting thing for us to collaborate on.”
Visitors will explore the evolutionary journey of the whale.
“They started off as land creatures and then they moved their way into the ocean. So, visitors will have a chance to learn about the ancient whales and then they’ll move into the modern whales where they’ll learn about the toothed whales and baleen whales followed by a little section on conservation and what we’re trying to do to save the whale populations in our oceans.”
“We haven’t taken our eye off the giant prize which is a big museum which we want to move into the old RCI warehouse. So we’re gonna be really working hard this year to really make our mark in the community and then we will start our fundraising campaign to get to where we need to go.”
She also thanked the volunteers who help run the facility.
The museum will have expanded hours this year.
It will be open Wednesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. starting March 15.
Starting May 1, the museum will operate seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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