Family Engagement Day

spider in web MPM's Educators will be out on the floors for family engagements until 3 p.m.!

Test your skills and see how much you know about spiders and the webs they weave:

What is a Spider?
Think you know everything about spiders and arachnids? Uncover the misconceptions and check out some spider specimens, too!

Spiders Pop-Up Tour
Join us for a quick walk through the Costa Rican Rainforest. We'll learn about arthropods, spiders, and the making of this famous exhibit.

O, What a Tangled Web!
At 50 times stronger than steel, spider webs are the most high-performance natural material known, and have long been a source of mystery and fascination. In this activity, visitors go bioprospecting for spider web biomimetics, attempt to weave a web as strong and flexible as a spider’s, and try their luck with the Official MPM Spider Web Matching Challenge.

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