After a six-year run, the climate change exhibit at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum will close Feb. 5 to make way for an immersive gallery of Chicago-area nature that's expected to open in April.
Visitors have less than a week to experience"Weather to Climate: Our Changing World." The exhibit explores the fundamentals of weather and climate while demonstrating the science and impacts of global warming through art installations, animal specimens and even a chance to be a climate meteorologist in a green-screen studio.
"The whole aspect of climate change was really, for the longest time, a conversation that was sort of in the imagination," he said."People would hear about things like tsunamis or these massive floods or incredibly violent storms, but they always seemed to be happening somewhere else." Ramos added that if there was one message he hoped the exhibit has left its visitors with over the last six years, it's that the climate issue is a solvable one.
"It's been long past the time that it would have been taken down and replaced with another exhibit. I would say the decision to close the exhibit really reflects this idea of going back into normalcy," Ramos said."We're open again, and the Nature Museum is not going away. We're strong, we survived the pandemic with the closures, and we want to continue bringing people as close to nature as possible.
With recently appointed President and CEO Erin Amico at the helm, the museum will open its long awaited Sustainability Center this fall, featuring rotating exhibits and spotlights on people making a difference in sustainable living.
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