You may book any combination of available shows for your scheduled day. See “Fee” below for pricing based on half- or full-day schedule.

All shows are available in English. Some shows are also available in Spanish, French, or Hebrew.

Click here for a note on state standards.

Space Requirements
20' x 20' indoor space for dome
12' ceiling
Electrical outlet

Scheduling
The maximum number of students per show is 40. Groups with young children may be able to fit up to 55. There is very little room for chairs, and the majority of participants will be seated on the floor.

Information
Contact Kerry Handron at 412.578.2580 or HandronK@carnegiemnh.org.

Fee
$350 for half-day (up to five shows in three hours)
$450 for full-day (up to 10 shows)

Travel expenses
Carnegie Museum of Natural History will charge one-way travel expenses in accordance with the current IRS standard mileage rate. Travel more than 76 miles may require an additional overnight fee of $100.

Available Shows

Amazing Astronomers of Antiquity
Over 2000 years ago, astronomers knew the Earth was round, measured its diameter and distance from the sun, created an accurate star map, predicted eclipses and developed a calendar with precision equal to our modern ones. Experience all these discoveries and more! To aid in your program planning, click here to download the script for this show.

Dinosaur Prophecy
Long before the dinosaurs’ massive extinction 65 million years ago, many individual species simply disappeared. In Dinosaur Prophecy, visit dinosaur graveyards, study their bones, and reconstruct how these creatures lived and died to solve four famous cold cases from the age of the dinosaurs.

Earth's Wild Ride
See the earth as a child living on the moon in 2081 would, as her grandfather recounts some of the exciting chapters in Earth's natural history. The wild rides include flying down a canyon in a storm, soaring around an erupting volcano, and seeing the end of the dinosaurs.

Force Five
See the science behind tornadoes, hurricanes, and solar storms. Then experience the sights and sounds of each violent storm.

Life’s Cradle, Birth of Wonder
Join the search for the cradle of life on the barren worlds of our solar system and on the grasslands of East Africa over three million years ago. Discover how changing geology and climate coincided with the explosion of intelligence and the beginning of modern humans.

Extremeophiles
Visit fantasy worlds and imagine what life would be like there, then see real life thriving in hot springs, frozen lakes, and other extreme environments.

It’s About Time
Imagine a Space Elevator which will take us into orbit. See many of our world’s natural clocks and think about the systems behind them. Look beyond the world to some of the universe’s timekeepers and discover amazing answers to many questions.

OvirapTour
Compare an oviraptorosaur and a modern bird up close and explore the differences and similarities.

Secrets of the Dead Sea
This part of the world plays a major role in our news, and it is important to realize that there is a long, rich, and important history in this sea. This show looks at geography, geology, history, and archeology of the area around the Dead Sea and includes visits to some important religious sites.
Also available in Hebrew.

Native American Sky Stories
Fill the Discovery Dome with stars and watch and listen as a storyteller skips about the sky, pointing out constellations and telling the stories that go with them from various Native American cultures.

Academic Standards and Museum Programs

Carnegie Museum of Natural History can help you address state standards.

If you teach in Ohio or West Virginia or are required to address national standards in your work, we can assist you in identifying the corresponding relevant standards for each museum program.

Connections are readily apparent between museum programs and a multitude of the academic standards for science & technology, environment & ecology, geography, and history. Less well-known are the ways in which the museum’s versatile teaching resources can enhance lessons that address standards for arts & humanities or reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Art teachers have long utilized taxidermy mounts from the museum’s loan program as drawing models, and in recent years, some English teachers have used archived news releases from the Web site for creative writing assignments. We will continue to share information about using the museum to meet standards, so if you and your colleagues develop effective lesson units that utilize the museum's materials, please let us know about them.