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On Thin Ice: Alaska’s Warming Wilderness

On Thin Ice: Alaska’s Warming Wilderness transports visitors to the Arctic to confront the startling impacts of climate change. Remarkable animals from the Bruce’s natural history collections are paired with scale landscape models that showcase Alaska’s diverse ecosystem. The installation highlights both subtle and dramatic shifts occurring across the Alaskan landscape, bringing attention to the impact of rising temperatures.

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June 15, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

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1 Museum Drive
Greenwich, CT 06830-7157 United States

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On Thin Ice: Alaska’s Warming Wilderness transports visitors to the Arctic to confront the startling impacts of climate change. Remarkable animals from the Bruce’s natural history collections are paired with scale landscape models that showcase Alaska’s diverse ecosystem. The installation highlights both subtle and dramatic shifts occurring across the Alaskan landscape, bringing attention to the impact of rising temperatures.

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Bruce Presents: Alaskan Dinosaurs: New Discoveries from an Ancient Arctic Ecosystem

Each year, hundreds of bird species migrate to the Arctic to nest and raise their young, benefitting from seasonally abundant food resources and up to six months of continuous summer daylight. They are essential members of their ecosystems, aiding in crucial tasks like pollination and seed dispersal and insect and small mammal population control. But work by paleontologists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has made the surprising revelation that this behavior isn’t new- birds and non-avian dinosaurs have been…

Bruce Museum

Nights Out: Maple Boildown

Did you know that the SM&NC is one of only two official maple sugar producers in Fairfield County? See first-hand how maple syrup is made in our very own Sugar House + Cidery using sap from the 100+ mature maple trees found right here on our 118-acre site. This adults-only evening of Maple Sugaring will feature tastings of fresh syrup along with maple beer, maple whiskey, and a maple-inspired snack box. Members: $25 Non-Members: $30 Thursday, March 13 6 –…

Sugarhouse + Cidery

All In This Together: Highlights from our Printmaking Programs

All In This Together: Highlights from our Printmaking Programs Exhibition Dates: March 4-30, 2025 Over the past 12 months, the Center for Contemporary Printmaking has facilitated the printmaking projects of dozens of artists. We’ve hosted Artists-in-Residence, conducted collaboration and editioning services, offered workshops across a spectrum of printmaking processes, and mentored high school students through our Grace Ross Shanley Fellowship Program. Our March 2025 Exhibition highlights some of the prints that have been produced at CCP through our suite of…

Center for Contemporary Printmaking

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