Cultural Compass
Skin: Living Armor
A new and bilingual, multisensory exhibition at FROST SCIENCE MUESUM. October 8, 2021 -April 3, 2022.
Discover the shape-shifting, color-changing and ever-evolving nature of this complex organ in the museum’s newest special exhibition. Uniquely personal yet universal, skin forms a living interface between organisms and their environment — and is our public face to the world. Skin: Living Armor, Evolving Identity is a bilingual, multi-sensory exhibition having its East Coast premiere at Frost Science. This unique exhibition invites guests to explore the beauty and sophistication of this organ through rarely seen scientific specimens, fascinating interactives and thought-provoking investigations of a challenging subject that’s far from black and white.
Skin: Living Armor, Evolving Identity was created by the California Academy of Sciences and modified for travel and distributed by the Science Museum of Minnesota.
A Matter of Identity
The exhibition dives deeper to explore how evolution has shaped diversity in human skin — and how much we still have yet to uncover about the underlying genetics of skin color. You’ll investigate the layers of meaning humans have associated with skin color throughout history and how our ever-evolving social and political climate has influenced shifting ideas of race, identity and culture in our modern world.
Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science
Skin: Living Armor, Evolving Identity will be on view from Friday, October 8, 2021 through Sunday, April 3, 2022 inside the Hsiao Family Special Exhibition Gallery on the first floor of the museum. Admission to Skin: Living Armor, Evolving Identity is included with all museum admission tickets.
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