Reptiles
Through Sunday, January 10, 2010
Museum closed Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
Click links below for more information:
About the Exhibit
Admission and Hours
Group Tours
Tour Add-ons
Reptile Finder activity page
Reptile Trivia
Reptile Photo Gallery
Reptiles Educational Guide for teachers
Reptile Birthday Parties for Member Children
Admission:
Adults/$8
Children 4-17/ $6
Children 3 & younger – 0
Member adult /$4 ,child/$3, w/membership card
ASTC Reciprocal $4/adult $3/child, w/ ASTC card
Hours:
Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm*, Saturday, 9am–6pm*, Sunday noon–6pm*
*Due to the scope of this special exhibition, no tickets will be sold after 4:15pm on weekdays or after 5:15pm on weekends, in order to assure visitors are able to view and enjoy everything.
Group Tours:
Reptiles: The Beautiful and the Deadly group rates for 10 or more, when booked in advance through the tour coordinator, will be $5 per person. Call 256-237-6766 or email gmorey@annistonmuseum.org, subject line “Tour Inquiry” to book a tour.
Tour Add-ons:
Add on a special live reptile program for your group for $75. This program is offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays only.
Slithering into Anniston Museum of Natural Hissstory, it’s Reptiles: The Beautiful and the Deadly. This incredible traveling exhibition introduces visitors to a variety of amazing reptiles, including deadly snakes, colorful lizards, bizarre turtles, alligators and crocodiles, all exhibited in naturalistic habitats. Designed especially for a family audience, it includes 19 living dioramas, more than 15 interactive components and 35 informational panels. You’ll view fascinating images from wildlife photographer Joe McDonald. Through interpretive graphics and hands-on activities, you’ll learn about reptile anatomy, behavior, ecology and conservation. Get past the myths about reptiles and grasp an understanding of how reptiles fit into the history of life and the fabric of their native environments.
Some of the exotic and exciting reptiles you’ll encounter are: the Leaf-tail Gecko, a lizard which gives new meaning to the word camouflage; the Gaboon Viper, an African viper with the longest fangs (up to two inches!) of any snake; the Side-necked Turtle, who folds its head to one side under the shell for protection, unlike most turtles, who pull their heads straight back; and the rare American Crocodile, of whom only an estimated 500 nesting females survive in Florida Bay off the southern tip of the state.
Reptiles: The Beautiful and the Deadly is a complete traveling reptile zoo - the product of more than 35 years experience. It is equipped with a full-time reptile keeper and state-of-the-art reptile husbandry facilities. Over two and a half years went into the exhibition from conception and design to final construction. Designed and produced by Peeling Productions at Clyde Peeling’s Reptiland, an AZA accredited zoological park with over 40 years of experience interpreting and exhibiting reptiles.
Anniston Museum will offer a variety of special programs and events during the run of the exhibit, including informative lectures and hands-on experiences with reptiles from the Museum’s own live animal collection. Program information and other exhibit information will be posted online beginning in Summer 2009 at www.annistonmuseum.org. Check the calendar of events regularly for updated programming information.
Special admission rates apply September 26, 2009–January 10, 2010: Adults/$8; children 4-17/ $6; Members adult /$4 & child/$3 with membership cards.
Anniston Museum of Natural History and Reptiles: The Beautiful and the Deadly – it’s natural hissstory like you’ve never seen before!
Exhibition Highlights
• Reptiles: The Beautiful and the Deadly is the largest traveling reptile exhibition in the world.
• Visitors get eyeball to eyeball with high-profile species of living reptiles from around the world including cobras, vipers, pythons, alligators, crocodiles, snapping turtles, gila monsters, a giant water monitor and many more.
• A hands-on, minds-on adventure! Visitors can touch a live snake; “milk” venom from a model rattlesnake; open and close the jaws of a deadly Gaboon Viper; guess the length of giant snakes; listen to the grunts, hisses and bellows of crocodiles; test their reptile IQ with “Lizard Wizard” and “Turtle Trivia;” and learn how to tell alligators from crocodiles.
• Reptile habitats are set into an exhibit island that provides a secure, climate-controlled service area where a professional keeper cares for the living collection. This exhibition is a fully equipped moveable reptile house.
• The exhibition presents the four major groups of living reptiles; turtles, crocodilians, lizards and snakes. Each section answers fundamental questions, like “What is a turtle?” and explores the structure, habitats, and survival strategies of each group. Visitors leave with a broad understanding of how reptiles fit into the animal kingdom, their native habitats and the ecology upon which we all depend.
• The exhibition is full of spectacular close-up photographs by world-renowned wildlife photographers Joe and MaryAnn McDonald. These stunning images are used both in backlighted panels and in a twenty-minute multi-image show.
Founded in 1930, Anniston Museum of Natural History is a nationally accredited museum with the purpose of enhancing public knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of living things and their environments. The Museum preserves and studies collections that relate to humankind and the natural environment and interprets these through interdisciplinary exhibits and programs. The Museum is committed to providing educational, recreational, and economic benefits which will improve the quality of life for diverse audiences. Exit 185 off I-20 between Birmingham and Atlanta. North on State Hwy 21 seven miles. Anniston Museum is located in Lagarde Park at the intersection of State Hwys 21/431.
Alligator Snapping Turtle
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Veiled Chameleon
Family Observing Python
Leaf Tailed Gecko
Tri Color Milksnake
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