Moving Pictures and Mummifies Dinosaurs: Events This Week At HMNS

Film Screening – The Hound of the Baskervilles with Warren Chaney Tuesday, August 21, 2018 – 6:30 PM Running Time: 2 hours The original 1939 “The Hound of the Baskervilles” kicked off the legendary Sherlock Holmes films. Produced by 20th Century Fox, it starred Basil Rathbone who went on to appear in 13 more films. This […]

Our Marine Biologist Stephanie Reviews “The Meg”

My Thoughts on “The Meg” by Stephanie, the non-fictional Marie Biologist   Caution!! This contains Spoilers!!   Don’t get mad at me if you read this before watching the movie.  I warned you.     -First and foremost. Megalodons are extinct….. -No shark will continue to try to eat the metal hull of a submarine […]

The BananApocolypse: It’s Real, It’s Scary; It’s Real Scary

Attention Readers! Please play this song as you read this blog. You will not regret it.   You hear that? It is the Gabriel’s horn of the banana world. The chiming of the yellow berry’s (yes, it’s actually a berry, not a fruit)  doomsday clock. Titled “Yes! We Have No Bananas” the song puts to […]

The Sherlock Party From Outer Space: HMNS Happenings This Week

Lecture – Grand Tour of the Universe—Updated with the Latest Discoveries by Carolyn Sumners The new release of “Passport to the Universe” contains spectacular, never-before-seen views of the observable Universe in large format. Dr. Carolyn Sumners, HMNS VP of Astronomy, will provide an update on these latest images and what they reveal. Highlights include our […]

The Most Cringe-Worthy Movie Moments For A Museum Employee

Summer is coming to a close and as we busily prepare for the start of the school year and the launch of our Beyond Bones podcast (be sure to look out for that next month) it seems like a good time to have a little fun. So here’s a list of the most cringe-worthy moments […]

Dinosaurs, Detectives And The Case Of The Shooting Stars: HMNS Happenings This Week

Lecture – Sherlock Holmes, The Evolution of a Timeless Character by Warren Chaney No other character has been beloved generation after generation. Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, however, has indeed evolved from Doyle’s original 54-volume cannon of Sherlock Holmes novels–to stage, radio, silver screen, and well into the digital age. Dr. Warren Chaney will trace the […]

Creepy Stop Motion Horror Films Made By Our Very Own X-plorations Summer Campers

The campers in Movie Monster Maker have been hard at work learning how to create stop motion animation films.  Through this week long camp, the kids learned to storyboard, made sets and characters and then filmed their movies.  Because these films are stop motion, there may be hundreds of static images in just a ten […]


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