Cleveland Museum of Natural History reinvented— Yeah!

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History has gone through a transformation - a reinventing of itself. If you have ever been there before, I guarantee you that you won’t even recognize it. Remember those high school reunions where you didn’t remember your lab partner looking like that? It’ll be like that.

The Museum went through a genuine, bonafide metamorphosis. Imagine a caterpillar. Let’s call him George. George is minding his own business, just eating all the little leaves he can fit in his fuzzy little mouth. Now imagine he’s stuffed. I’m not talking a little bloated from eating too much lasagna at your favorite Italian restaurant that your Auntie Matilda told you to go to. I am talking about a full-blown competitive food-eaters’ Olympic food coma. But not with hotdogs - with MAGIC. Now imagine George curls his little, let’s call them toes-for-fingers, around the chin-up bar at the playground where he goes to horticulture school, and then just STAYS S T I L L. He stays so still that someone thinks he’s a coat rack so they put a poncho over him. And not just any poncho. The poncho George gets is a long poncho that goes all the way down to his fingers-for- toes- all 100 of them. And even tucks around them so they don’t get cold, especially at night. And he still stays still. He doesn’t even cough or hiccup. For a long L O N G time.

From the outside, George’s poncho doesn’t look like much is happening. BUT, and that’s a very big BUTT: something truly remarkable is happening- but on the inside. And one day that inside becomes the outside and out emerges George- a glorious, colorful, intricate wing-full of fascinatingness so bright that you would think George swallowed the sun!

Yessss, that is what has happened to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

Please join me in celebrating the Museum’s $150-million expansion that features a complete reinstallation of exhibits featuring outstanding historical and living collections, the latest scientific research, immersive technologies, and new public spaces! Celebrating its 100th anniversary, the Museum holds more than five million artifacts and specimens, and stewards more than 11,000 acres of nature preserves. It is one of the country’s leading research institutions across diverse fields, with premier collections ranging from the evidence of human origins to ancient ecosystems during catastrophic extinction.

The name of this event is called EPOCH.

Meeting time and place:
Let’s meet at the ticket desk between 7:00 pm and 7:30 pm for a 7:30 PM departure. if you are running late, I will post in the comment section on Meetup from time to time where we are located.

Cost: $35
You can pay in person or online. There are current discussions at the museum about if what you are charged can go toward a membership. Once I find out, I will let you know.

We will have full run of the museum and can explore every nook and cranny. Savor delicious food and craft cocktails that will keep the good times flowing on and off the dance floor!

Cash bar

Free parking in the Museum garage for first 300 vehicles. Pay-Parking garages nearby as well as street parking.

Please leave your beh-behs and children at home. This is an event just for adults—the +21 kind. This doesn’t mean that you are not allowed to act like children, however. 🤣

For more details:

https://www.cmnh.org/explore/calendar/2024/12/13/epoch-a-party-for-the-ages

https://www.cmnh.org/

So put on some comfortable shoes— maybe even dancing shoes if you so desire—get your intellectual curiosity hat on, and come on, let’s have some fun!