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🕸️ Add to cal: Experience “Spiders: Fear to Fascination” at NC Museum of Natural Sciences

June 19, 2023 • 
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The exhibit is open from June 17 to October 8, 2023 and admission is free for Museum Members.

Jumping Spider photo courtesy of Australian Museum

Explore a web of wonders through augmented reality and video projection technology at the newly-opened “Spiders: Fear to Fascination” exhibition at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences.

Guests of all ages will encounter 250+ live and preserved specimens and get to:

  • Compete in a mating dance-off with a peacock spider
  • Hold virtual spiders
  • Test your fang agility
  • Create an animated arachnid
  • Discover how webs are produced and how spiders communicate
  • See the world through spider vision

Get tickets.

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