The Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science & Art


	Currently, we have eight permanent exhibits open to the public:
Installation view of the Bird Gallery	THE BIRD GALLERY The museum's permanent display of the ornithological collection includes a selection of the 2,300 birds acquired through the Museums founder, Dr. Everhart and his colleague Colonel L.A. Watres, as well as four dioramas showing area birds and animals in their natural settings. Most of the birds on display are from North America, including water birds, such as ducks, geese, and loons; shore birds like the sandpiper and plover; land birds such as pheasants, grouse, and partridges; a wide variety of birds of prey including eagles, hawks, owls and falcons; and a myriad of song birds and woodpeckers. Extinct and endangered species of birds such as the Passenger Pigeon, Whooping Crane, and the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The display also includes many exotic birds such as peacocks, Birds of Paradise, and parrots from South America India, Australia, and Papua New Guinea.
Installation view of the Life Though Time Gallery	LIFE THROUGH TIME Fossilized specimens from the Cambrian through Quaternary periods, including casts of a fully articulated Stegosaurus and a Tyrannosaurus Rex head.
Installation view of the Folk Art Gallery	AMERICAN FOLK ART This gallery highlights the Museum's Folk Art collection, including mourning pictures, frakturs, weathervanes and portraits.
Installation view of the Ancient World Gallery	THE ANCIENT WORLD Spanning 30,000 years, the gallery includes prehistoric hand tools, ancient pottery, Babylonian cylindrical seals and stamps, Greek and Roman sculpture, mongol swords, and medieval carvings and manuscripts.
Installation view of the African Gallery	AFRICA IN A NEW LIGHT Twelve of Africa’s 54 nations and 18 of the hundreds of different cultural groups in Africa are represented in the gallery.
Installation view of the Main Gallery	FINE ART Exceptional examples of American art from 1800 - 2000, including Thomas Cole, John Frederick Kensett, Violet Oakley, Robert Henri, Raphael Soyer, John Willard Raught, and Hope Horn.
A view of one case in the Decorative Arts Gallery	DECORATIVE ARTS This gallery includes the Museum's Dorflinger glass collection and other types of decorative and functional items from America, Europe and Asia.
Installation view of Visible Storage Room	VISIBLE STORAGE ROOM It is not uncommon for museums to only have 20 percent of their permanent collection on display at any point in time, and the rest resides out of the public eye in the storage areas. In order to provide our patrons with a glimpse of the depth of our collection, the Visible Storage Room (VSR) mirrors the behind-the-scenes storage areas of the museum. In the VSR is a broad cross section of objects from many aspects of the collection, some of which have not been on view for many years, including selections from the natural history specimens, rocks, shells, ethnographic, and visual arts collections. The display will be unlike others at the museum, with works densely packed in categories of medium and type, just as they would appear in our storage area. The VSR provides unique opportunities for education, both for school groups and the general public.