814-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 4,1989
Cows And Dinosaurs
Meet In Academy Museum
BY
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
PHILADELPHIA—What do
cows .and dinosaurs have in
common?
Right now, both share the spot
light at The Academy of Natural
Sciences Museum located in the
City Hall district of the city.
In an exhibit sponsored by the
academy and underwritten by milk
promotion groups and private
companies, the whole story of the
dairy cow is told in photographs,
displays and videos. Insert your
finger in a teat cup, push a button
and a milking machine will
demonstrate how it feels to the
cow.
Or, take a walk through a cow’s
stomach. A maze of passageways
in a large padded sphere starts at
the make-believe cow’s tongue
and ends, you-know-where. In the
middle, signs along the way
describe what happens to the grain
and grass that passes through the
various stomachs on the way out to
the large intestine. At the exit, you
need to step around the large
brown bean bags that, without
much imagination, remind you of a
Sunday walk through a freshly
grazed cow pasture.
Outside in a courtyard, two
Holstein heifers are on display
with no evidence of bean bags any
where. The heifers are on loan to
These heifers „ setting are part of the “Cows, Fact
and Fancy” at the Academy of Natural Sciences Museum.
PACT & FANCY
the museum from Saul High
School, a vocational school in the
Philadelphia school system with
the largest FFA chapter in the
nation and the only dairy herd in
the city of Philadelphia. The Saul
students come daily from across
town to take care of bamkeeping
chores.
The students and the heifers are
quite comfortable in the city
because that’s where they all grew
up. And the live exhibit of dairy
animals adds the final touch of
reality so characteristic of all exhi
bits at the Academy.
The dairy cow exhibit titled
“Cows, Fact and Fancy,” has been
a great attraction for the Academy.
“We are using the cow exhibit as
our feature attraction,” said Rus-
sell Daws, director of education.
“We had over 3,000 visitors last
week. Everybody seems to be
attracted to cows.”
Raylene Decatur, director of
exhibits agrees. “All the city TV
crews fought for the job to cover
the opening of this exhibit,” said
Decatur. “The local media always
has an interest in exhibits we create
in-house, and this one seemed to
draw even more attention.”
The publicity efforts have been
quite substantial. 100,00 bro
chures were printed for the Phi
ladelphia Tourist Bureau. City
schools were notified of the educa
tional exhibit. A tag line was added
to Mid-Atlantic Milk Marketing
Association ads; WAWA Foods
used a milk carton panel to adver
tise the event; and a letter was sent
to the 15,000 Academy members.
The Dairy Council Inc., held a
reception and private preview last
Friday evening, and the PA Dairy
Promotion Program was involved
with opening previews and dairy
princess appearances.
The exhibit features four focal
areas and each area addresses a dif
ferent aspect of cows. “Evolution
and Domestication” highlights
specimens from the Academy’s
vertebrate paleontology collection
to help visitors leam about cattle
domestication. “Cows as Symbol”
is a traveling photography exhibit
curated by the International
Museum of Photography at
George Eastman House. Consist
ing of photographs, illustrations,
text and an animated video, this
section deals with the association
of human and cow and the result
ing role the cow has played in liter
ature, religion and art.
“Cow Biology” shows milk pro
duction and “Cow Facts” com
bines fun and information on
cows’ daily habits, needs and
behavior.
The Academy is located at 19th
and Parkway in Philadelphia. The
“Cows” exhibit opened October
15, and will continue through
January 15, 1990. An admission
charge is required to visit the
Academy’s cows exhibit and exhi
bits on three floors of prehistoric to
present day mounted animals in
their natural settings. For more
information call: (215) 299-1020.
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