Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium

The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium will develop Nature, Climate, and Change: The Observer’s Gallery, a dynamic exhibition supporting the museum’s core education and outreach programs. The museum has launched an outreach initiative to engage volunteers in the observation, documentation, recording, sharing, and interpreting of key biological and meteorological indicators of environmental change. The exhibit will introduce visitors to the tools, skills, and protocols of scientific observation using natural history collections and a range of interactive exhibit components. Visitors will be encouraged to apply their observation skills to the natural history specimens displayed throughout the museum and become curious about their own communities, contributing data, anecdotes, and interpretation to a long-term citizen science project.