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This exhibit features blind cave fish, barn owls, Burmese python (16 feet long) and gopher snakes.
Sprawling over five acres, there are six exhibit areas with many viewing points, as well as a waterfall, streams, ponds, mineral licks, and bamboo forest. You will quickly discover why this exhibit is
The zoo is pleased to provide visitors with the chance to observe Red Wolves and learn more about this important recovery program. Learn what Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium is doing to save the endan
This fanciful exhibit engages children in active learning through play. The focus is on fun, movement and learning what animals need to thrive. Explore the Magical Movement area where kids can climb a
Magellanic Penguins live on the rocky shores of South America. Look for sea anemones and sea urchins living in the tide pool.
Plunge into a tropical world featuring sharks, coral reefs and other fascinating marine life.
The Arctic Tundra exhibit mirrors a coastal setting near Point Hope, Alaska. Travel along sloping walkways into the "Far North" and encounter reindeer and Arctic foxes as well as massive mus
This exhibit features the Eurasian Eagle Owl, Spectacled Owl and the Raven (the raven is not a bird of prey, but this is where he lives).
Tour two floors of exhibits, including the hands-on Marine Discovery Center. See salmon, jellyfish, octopi and much more.
Some of the zoo's most beloved animals--beluga whale, Pacific walrus, sea otters and tufted puffins--live in this award-winning habitat. You can view this exhibit above and below water, offering
'Animal Avenue' features meerkets, role rats and dozen of other new kinds of animals.
Watch as several of the mammals have their walk midday.
The collection at the Burke Museum includes 100,000 spiders, as well as other terrestrial invertebrates such as 37,000 butterflies and moths, and some 136,000 additional specimens including bees, horn
Incoming! is the first in a series of exhibitions devoted to showcasing the Museum's Permanent Collection of 20th- and 21st-century glass.
Museum Director, David Nicandri has chosen more than 65 items from the Washinton State Historical Society's collection that represent Washington for this exhibit.
'Life and Times of Washington State' is a hands-on adventure that begins 545 million years ago. Richly exotic, yet strangely familiar, this exhibit is a passport through the evolution of the
Spin a two-ton granite ball with your bare hands or walk in the giant water wheel in Water Works. Nearby, ride the High Rail Bicycle 15 feet above the ground -- on a rail one inch wide!
The University of Washington Herbarium (also known as WTU) is an international resource for research into the diversity, distribution and ecology of Pacific Northwest vascular plants, non-vascular pla
Have you ever wondered how 3D movies are made? Or how some artists create incredibly realistic 3D images with only the use of paint and canvas? Pacific Science Center's 'Adventures in 3Dimen
The Genetic Resource Collection at the Burke Museum is essentially a "library" of biodiversity--and one of the most important in the world for birds. The Burke's GRC and the few others