County to Host National Traveling Exhibit On the Stroy of Extinction Through Partnership With Maryland Science Center

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Contact: Joe Keyser, 301-217-6321
For Immediate Release: February 6, 1998

County to Host National Traveling Exhibit
On the Story of Extinction
Through Partnership With Maryland Science Center

Area residents can travel through the past 500 million years at a special exhibit which
opens on February 13 in Rockville at the Executive Office Building.
"Our Weakening Web: The Story of Extinction," uses life-like dioramas, interactive
components such as video games, specimens and models to teach visitors how our lifestyles
and manipulation of natural resources affect our environment.
Visitors can explore more than 500 million years of natural history, discover how the
ongoing process of extinction occurs, and learn how each person can find solutions to
preserving the balance in nature.
Local officials, including County Executive Douglas M. Duncan, students from
College Gardens Elementary School in Rockville, and representatives from the Maryland
Science Center will open the exhibit at ceremonies on Friday, February 13, at 9:30 a.m.
The 1,800 square-foot traveling exhibit, produced by the Cincinnati Museum Center,
comes to Montgomery County through a partnership between the County's Department of
Environmental Protection and the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore.
Located in the cafeteria of the Executive Office Building at 101 Monroe Street, the

free exhibit will be open to the public on weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. and from 10
a.m. to 3 p.m. on weekends, through March 15. School groups are welcome.
One hour free parking is available during the week under the building on level G-2;
weekend parking is free.
For information, call 301-217-2355.

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