New York times best selling author Steve Brusatte a paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh and a specialist on the evolution of dinosaurs will be on hand for a special one night lecture and to sign his book The Rise of the Dinosaur. The lecture promptly starts at 7pm and is a limited seating engagement (first come first served).

“THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY,” hails Scientific American: A thrilling new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. Now a New York Times bestseller!

“This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous.” —

"Pluto in the Round"

Full dome video, images of Pluto and Charon. Live commentary by the visiting New Horizons' mission team members...

Friday Sept 21 and Saturday Sept 22

1pm - 1:45pm

in the Museum planetarium

FREE for Museum staff, volunteers, and all visitors to the Museum that day...

• Experience Pluto in a full-dome video with live commentary by the visiting NASA mission scientists

• This is a new product that the NASA folks are trying out...please come and help review it...

• This will also be a good time to ask questions and discuss one-on-one with the team members....in a more one-on-one and personal way than the dynatheater...