Montshire Museum of Science

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History

The name "Montshire" is a portmanteau of "Vermont" and "New Hampshire".[1] It was cofounded in 1974 by Dr. Robert Chaffee, former Museum Director of the Dartmouth College Museum.

When the college museum closed, Chaffee and Walter Paine devised a community museum and education center, incorporating it as the Montshire. In 1976, Dartmouth College donated the collection of biological and geological collections to the new museum.[1][2]

The Montshire Museum was first located in a former bowling alley building in 1976 in Hanover, New Hampshire, and was later moved across the Connecticut River to a purpose-built building in Norwich in 1989.[1] [3]

Description

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The museum, including the building and nature trails, is located on over Script error: No such module "convert". of land.[4] It has over 150 exhibits relating to the natural and physical sciences, ecology, and technology.[5] Its live animal exhibits include a hive of honeybees that is connected to the outdoors, a colony of leafcutter ants, and aquariums that feature life in local waters.[6]

Outside the museum building, there is a Script error: No such module "convert". Science Park including a scale model of the Solar System (Pluto is located Script error: No such module "convert". away),[4] and interactive exhibits on water, light, sound, and motion. Among the sound exhibits there are "whisper dishes" (parabolic dishes Script error: No such module "convert". apart) and a musical fence built by Paul Matisse, grandson of painter Henri Matisse.[7][8] Each year, the museum holds an annual igloo build.[9]

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External links

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