What Do People Do at the Science Museum? @Central
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Author Maggie Tokuda-Hall will be here to celebrate her new book What Do People Do at the Science Museum? and joined by Sr. Museum Scientists Alex Lowe (Paleobotany Collections) and Ashley Dineen (Invertebrates)! Saturday, October 24 11:30am-12:30pm Central 4th Floor Children's Nonfiction Room 2090 Kittredge St. Berkeley, CA 94704 About the Book: A fun, vibrantly illustrated behind-the-scenes tour of the inner workings of a natural history museum and all the incredible people who work there! Welcome to the Science and Natural History Museum! Here you’ll see all kinds of cool things, from a whole Dunkleosteus skeleton to a tiny dwarf seahorse to a glimpse of the Andromeda Galaxy. You’ll also meet all kinds of cool people—like volcanologists, paleontologists, squid biologists, and many more—who research fascinating questions so that they can answer yours. But what do these people do all day at the science museum? Well, there’s only one way to find out! Join a field trip through the busy museum and find out about all the kinds of scientists who work there and each of their incredible fields. About the Creators: Maggie Tokuda-Hall is not a scientist, but she does have a lot of questions. She grew up going to the Lawrence Hall of Science, the La Brea Tar Pits, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the Steinhart Aquarium, and the Los Angeles and Oakland Zoos. Once, when she was 12, she even got to visit the Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan in Japan.
