“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
- Buddha
Two eclipses—one lunar, one solar—are on the horizon, literally—in both definitions of the word.
The purpose of the Citizen-based Monitoring Program of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is to support efforts using citizen volunteers to monitor the status of the state's aquatic and terrestrial plants, animals, and their habitats. By using this questionnaire to submit observations of sponges in your local waterways, you will become a participant in this program.
The resources on this page will focus on Africa and the animals that live there.
Together, we are creating a new wonder for Wisconsin, a world-class museum that’s alive with the wonders around us and unleashes the wonder within us.
Support the Nature & Culture Museum of Wisconsin project by making a gift to our capital campaign, the Wisconsin Wonders campaign.
Real Pirates Educator Open House Events
*A special event for Educator Pass Holders only! Not an Educator Pass Holder? It's easy and FREE to register!
These figures are on an enormous turntable around singers at a drum and pass through areas of theatrical lighting accompanied by the sounds of American Indian music.
In this Planetarium program, follow the struggles as new discoveries alter our view of Earth and its place in the universe. Witness the connections and conflicts between astronomy and astrology. See how the Earth went from a flat place to a round world -- from a static, motionless home to a spinning, orbiting planet! Finally, voyage into the galaxy to glimpse how future discoveries might start new battles about the sky above.
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian Poet-Writer
