"The Bruce" is a remarkable little Natural History and Art museum in Greenwich, CT.
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"The Bruce" is a remarkable little Natural History and Art museum in Greenwich, CT. If AMNH is a five course meal, with three course dessert and brunch the next day. The Bruce is a bento box. Delightful, not overwhelming and a perfect day trip from the city.
The ant exhibit had many, photographs, dioramas and models. Children and adults will find lots to enjoy.
I only have one small criticism. The castings of the ants nests need to be numbered so you can identify which species they belong to.
That said, since the nests weren't labeled I enjoyed working out which species went with each nest, maybe it could be a kind of game.
Put a button by each species card and the correct nest lights up!
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"The Bruce" is a remarkable little Natural History and Art museum in Greenwich, CT. If AMNH is a five course meal, with three course dessert and brunch the next day. The Bruce is a bento box. Delightful, not overwhelming and a perfect day trip from the city.
The ant exhibit had many, photographs, dioramas and models. Children and adults will find lots to enjoy.
I only have one small criticism. The castings of the ants nests need to be numbered so you can identify which species they belong to.
@futurebird the ant nest second from the right is really neat looking
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"The Bruce" is a remarkable little Natural History and Art museum in Greenwich, CT. If AMNH is a five course meal, with three course dessert and brunch the next day. The Bruce is a bento box. Delightful, not overwhelming and a perfect day trip from the city.
The ant exhibit had many, photographs, dioramas and models. Children and adults will find lots to enjoy.
I only have one small criticism. The castings of the ants nests need to be numbered so you can identify which species they belong to.
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@futurebird the ant nest second from the right is really neat looking
The one that looks like pancakes? That's Pogonomyrmex badius, FL harvester ants. They have massive nests. That's not even a big one...
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They are CUTE.
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"The Bruce" is a remarkable little Natural History and Art museum in Greenwich, CT. If AMNH is a five course meal, with three course dessert and brunch the next day. The Bruce is a bento box. Delightful, not overwhelming and a perfect day trip from the city.
The ant exhibit had many, photographs, dioramas and models. Children and adults will find lots to enjoy.
I only have one small criticism. The castings of the ants nests need to be numbered so you can identify which species they belong to.
There were many large format photos by @alexwild I wonder if they will send this on tour to other Natural History museums.
Getting to see the nest models in person was the highlight for me. I've only seen photos of them in books.
And of course the giant ants.
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"The Bruce" is a remarkable little Natural History and Art museum in Greenwich, CT. If AMNH is a five course meal, with three course dessert and brunch the next day. The Bruce is a bento box. Delightful, not overwhelming and a perfect day trip from the city.
The ant exhibit had many, photographs, dioramas and models. Children and adults will find lots to enjoy.
I only have one small criticism. The castings of the ants nests need to be numbered so you can identify which species they belong to.
@futurebird I'm jealous you got to see this in person!
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@futurebird I'm jealous you got to see this in person!
It looked really good!
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"The Bruce" is a remarkable little Natural History and Art museum in Greenwich, CT. If AMNH is a five course meal, with three course dessert and brunch the next day. The Bruce is a bento box. Delightful, not overwhelming and a perfect day trip from the city.
The ant exhibit had many, photographs, dioramas and models. Children and adults will find lots to enjoy.
I only have one small criticism. The castings of the ants nests need to be numbered so you can identify which species they belong to.
Don't miss it! There were so many amazing (and very accurate) models. I thought at first "why do I need to see a model when I've seen a thousand photos of these ants?" But you get a whole new perspective.
Get to Greenwich by May or you'll miss it! You will miss "Hormiga Balrog"
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Don't miss it! There were so many amazing (and very accurate) models. I thought at first "why do I need to see a model when I've seen a thousand photos of these ants?" But you get a whole new perspective.
Get to Greenwich by May or you'll miss it! You will miss "Hormiga Balrog"
They also have an awesome collection of cave crystals in every color of the rainbow and some very nice fish.
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They also have an awesome collection of cave crystals in every color of the rainbow and some very nice fish.
I should say more about the "fish" ...
They had a "Long Island Sound" fish tank, it was huge with circulating water and it was full of the most wacky fishes I've ever seen.
I had NO IDEA there were goofballs like this in long island sound:
The tank was very active and the fish would LOOK AT YOU.
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I should say more about the "fish" ...
They had a "Long Island Sound" fish tank, it was huge with circulating water and it was full of the most wacky fishes I've ever seen.
I had NO IDEA there were goofballs like this in long island sound:
The tank was very active and the fish would LOOK AT YOU.
I know this sounds tame, but it was not. It was total chaos in there and I will need to think about this the next time I'm in my kayak.
