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New Exhibit at Minnesota Children’s Museum Answers All the Slimy, Oozy, Crusty, Stinky Questions Kids Love to Ask

Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body opens January 21, 2012

Minnesota Children’s Museum announces a new exhibit exploring the good, the bad, and the downright ugly side of the human body. Opening on Saturday, January 21, Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body tackles all the sticky sources of children’s curiosity. Crawl up a giant nose, capture waste as a Kidney, and discover the source of every burp, gurgle, toot, squish, and slurp! Based on the best-selling book Grossology by Sylvia Branzei, the exhibit runs through May 13, 2012.

The learning environments in Grossology provide fun opportunities for interactive play. Tinkerers and aspiring engineers will delight in the Rube Goldberg-esque “Vomit Center,” a whimsical model for the many causes of losing one’s lunch. For those with olfactory inclinations, a stop at the “Y U Stink” body odor challenge teaches the basics in bacteria identification. Intrepid adventurers can trek through an oversized nose, slide through a 30-foot 3D digestive system, and scale a “Skin Climbing Wall” complete with bumps, blisters, and boils. Even bookworms will feel at home amid the many scintillating science facts scattered throughout the exhibit.

Grossology carefully pairs educational content with every activity. A traveling exhibit, Grossology was developed by Science World, Advanced Exhibits, and author Sylvia Branzei. A teacher, writer, curriculum designer, and microbiologist, Branzei knows fun and learning go hand-in-hand and that appealing to kids’ more vulgar interests isn’t always a bad idea.“If we teach kids in their own words, they’ll understand better and actually learn something.”

The Grossology exhibit at Minnesota Children’s Museum is sponsored by Delta Dental. For more information about Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body visit Grossology or explore the exhibit website.

About Minnesota Children’s Museum

Minnesota Children’s Museum is a non-profit community organization committed to sparking children’s learning through play. Infants ages six months through children age 10 discover their world through hands-on exhibits in five permanent galleries and two changing gallery spaces. The Museum welcomes more than 400,000 adults and children each year; approximately 30% of those visitors enter the Museum through the Access program, which provides free and reducedprice admission to families and schools facing financial barriers. Each year, The Museum also equips approximately 1,500 early childhood educators with tools and knowledge through professional development workshops.

The Museum is also a leading developer of traveling children’s museum exhibits; more than 10 million people across the United States and Canada have interacted with the Museum’s wellknown exhibits including The Adventures With Clifford The Big Red Dog™ and Curious George™: Let’s Get Curious!.