New Bell Museum will include a walk-through diorama

Bell Museum of Natural History
The Bell Museum of Natural History on the University of Minnesota campus.
Tim Post | MPR News

The Bell Museum of Natural History will be moving soon into a new and bigger home.

The museum is currently located in a small building on the University of Minnesota's Minneapolis campus. At the end of the year, it will close its doors and begin the move to a new $79 million facility that was paid for in part with state funds.

Don't worry: There will still be dioramas and taxidermy. There will also be something new: a planetarium.

MPR News host Tom Weber spoke with George Weiblen, the museum's Scientific Director and Curator of Plants, about the Bell's future, including the new biodiversity atlas and the best strategy for moving the museum's beloved dioramas.

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