Prepared for adventure, visitors delved into the science of survival with demonstrations, experiments, and art activities.

• Intrepid explorers experimented with potatoes and pennies to make electricity, made compasses and sundials, learned how to tie knots, and identify water.
• Museum castaways greeted visitors from the Survival Hut out front and demonstrated some simple survival technology.
• Participants took part in challenges including building spaghetti/marshmallow towers, designing marble mazes, and constructing rafts out of odds ‘n’ ends.
• Visitors discovered how animals are adapted to survive in their habitats through a gallery trail, then use this to develop a creature that could survive in extreme environments on Earth and beyond in the Extreme Animal Studio.
• Nature's Worst Case Scenario posters gave visitors examples of some of the incredible and intriguing ways that plants and animals are adapted to their environment.