Museum of Science (Boston) Museum of Science Boston species list July 2022

[TinoPup]

Typed this up for a different thread, might as well give it one of its own to make it easier to find

My visit was July 3 2022.

Ambassador area (that I could see/zoom in on signs for; there were several more cages further back that I couldn't get the labels for):
-Desert tortoise
-Red-footed tortoise
-Timber rattlesnake
-Corn snake
-Eastern garter snake
-Dumeril's ground boa
-Ball python
-Brazilian rainbow boa
-Chuckwalla
-Bearded dragon
-Sheltopusik
-Domestic ferret
-Striped skunk
-Lesser Madagascar hedgehog tenrec
-Four-toed hedgehog

New England Climate Stories:
-Domestic rat
-Blue Jay
-Eastern screech owl
-Garter snake
-Black rat snake
-Eastern box turtle
-American toad
-Gray tree frog
-Spotted salamander
-Redbelly dance
-Eastern oyster
-American eel
-Fiddler crab
-Northern walking stick
-Milkweed bug
-Chinese praying mantis
-Wolf spider

Cotton-top Tamarins:
-Cotton-top Tamarin (surprise!)

Garden Walk & Insect Zoo:
-Poison dart frogs (Unspecified, didn't see any)
-Thorny devil walking stick Eurycantha calcarata
-Giant stick insect Phobaeticus serratipes
-Australian prickly stick Extatosoma tiaratum
-Jungle nymph Heteropteryx dilatata
-Giant cave cockroach Blaberus giganteus
-Giant desert centipede Scolopendra heros
-Florida ivory millipede Chicobolus spinigerus
-Diving beetle Thermonectus sp.
-Sun beetle Pachnoda marginata
-Flamboyant flower beetle Eudicella gralli
-Jade-headed buffalo beetle Eudicella smithii
-Zebra isopods Armadillium maculatum
-Desert hairy scorpion Hadrurus arizonensis
-Asian forest scorpion Heterometrus sp.
-Mexican red knee tarantula Brachypelma hamorii
-Leaf-cutter ants, unspecified

Yawkey Gallery on the Charles River:
-Eastern milk snake
-Spotted salamander / gray treefrog
-Bluegill sunfish, redbreast sunfish, pumpkinseed sunfish, largemouth bass, brown bullhead, yellow perch
-Unspecified macroinvertebrates

 

[15399]

New England Climate Stories:
-Domestic rat
-Blue Jay
-Eastern screech owl
-Garter snake
-Black rat snake
-Eastern box turtle
-American toad
-Gray tree frog
-Spotted salamander
-Redbelly dance
-Eastern oyster
-American eel
-Fiddler crab
-Northern walking stick
-Milkweed bug
-Chinese praying mantis
-Wolf spider

I visited the museum today to see the new Jane Goodall Documentary, and I can unfortunately report that this exhibit no longer replaces. It was replaced with an exhibit on Mazes and Brain Games, which contains only one live animal species: domestic rats. This might be the most engaging rat exhibit I've ever seen though, as it contains four interconnected areas that combine to form what the museum calls their "Rat Maze". A shame the New England Climate Stories exhibit is gone (I was very impressed by it on my last few visits), but at least there is still a quite good live animal component to the new exhibit.

-Bluegill sunfish, redbreast sunfish, pumpkinseed sunfish, largemouth bass, brown bullhead, yellow perch

Along with the fish, there are also Painted Turtles in this exhibit.

A few areas were missed on this species list:

• Black Rat Snake and Eastern Box Turtle share an exhibit in one of the first-floor galleries (I forget the name but it's not one you'd expect live animals in)
• The Hall of Human Life contains an axolotl exhibit, with signage focusing on how they are a model organism due to their regenerative abilities.

Ambassador area (that I could see/zoom in on signs for; there were several more cages further back that I couldn't get the labels for):
-Desert tortoise
-Red-footed tortoise
-Timber rattlesnake
-Corn snake
-Eastern garter snake
-Dumeril's ground boa
-Ball python
-Brazilian rainbow boa
-Chuckwalla
-Bearded dragon
-Sheltopusik
-Domestic ferret
-Striped skunk
-Lesser Madagascar hedgehog tenrec
-Four-toed hedgehog

Timber Rattlesnake has been replaced by Green Tree Python. There's now a domestic rabbit and an American Toad in this area as well as the listed species. Red-footed tortoise has moved to the cottontop tamarin exhibit.

 

[TinoPup]

I visited the museum today to see the new Jane Goodall Documentary, and I can unfortunately report that this exhibit no longer replaces. It was replaced with an exhibit on Mazes and Brain Games, which contains only one live animal species: domestic rats. This might be the most engaging rat exhibit I've ever seen though, as it contains four interconnected areas that combine to form what the museum calls their "Rat Maze". A shame the New England Climate Stories exhibit is gone (I was very impressed by it on my last few visits), but at least there is still a quite good live animal component to the new exhibit.


Along with the fish, there are also Painted Turtles in this exhibit.

A few areas were missed on this species list:

• Black Rat Snake and Eastern Box Turtle share an exhibit in one of the first-floor galleries (I forget the name but it's not one you'd expect live animals in)
• The Hall of Human Life contains an axolotl exhibit, with signage focusing on how they are a model organism due to their regenerative abilities.

Timber Rattlesnake has been replaced by Green Tree Python. There's now a domestic rabbit and an American Toad in this area as well as the listed species. Red-footed tortoise has moved to the cottontop tamarin exhibit.

Thanks for the update! I really liked the climate stories exhibit and am sad to hear it's ended. The rats were my favorite part, though <3

It was super busy on my visit and Dad wanted to get back to my aunt's so unless I thought there would be animals, we probably skipped the area, lol. We didn't do the fossil area at all, or anything about space. I forget what else.

 

[pichu]

Typed this up for a different thread, might as well give it one of its own to make it easier to find

My visit was July 3 2022.

Ambassador area (that I could see/zoom in on signs for; there were several more cages further back that I couldn't get the labels for):
-Desert tortoise
-Red-footed tortoise
-Timber rattlesnake
-Corn snake
-Eastern garter snake
-Dumeril's ground boa
-Ball python
-Brazilian rainbow boa
-Chuckwalla
-Bearded dragon
-Sheltopusik
-Domestic ferret
-Striped skunk
-Lesser Madagascar hedgehog tenrec
-Four-toed hedgehog

New England Climate Stories:
-Domestic rat
-Blue Jay
-Eastern screech owl
-Garter snake
-Black rat snake
-Eastern box turtle
-American toad
-Gray tree frog
-Spotted salamander
-Redbelly dance
-Eastern oyster
-American eel
-Fiddler crab
-Northern walking stick
-Milkweed bug
-Chinese praying mantis
-Wolf spider

Cotton-top Tamarins:
-Cotton-top Tamarin (surprise!)

Garden Walk & Insect Zoo:
-Poison dart frogs (Unspecified, didn't see any)
-Thorny devil walking stick Eurycantha calcarata
-Giant stick insect Phobaeticus serratipes
-Australian prickly stick Extatosoma tiaratum
-Jungle nymph Heteropteryx dilatata
-Giant cave cockroach Blaberus giganteus
-Giant desert centipede Scolopendra heros
-Florida ivory millipede Chicobolus spinigerus
-Diving beetle Thermonectus sp.
-Sun beetle Pachnoda marginata
-Flamboyant flower beetle Eudicella gralli
-Jade-headed buffalo beetle Eudicella smithii
-Zebra isopods Armadillium maculatum
-Desert hairy scorpion Hadrurus arizonensis
-Asian forest scorpion Heterometrus sp.
-Mexican red knee tarantula Brachypelma hamorii
-Leaf-cutter ants, unspecified

Yawkey Gallery on the Charles River:
-Eastern milk snake
-Spotted salamander / gray treefrog
-Bluegill sunfish, redbreast sunfish, pumpkinseed sunfish, largemouth bass, brown bullhead, yellow perch
-Unspecified macroinvertebrates

the ambassador area houses the blue jay and garter snake, one species also held in this area behind the scenes is a boa constrictor, a snapping turtle can be seen in the front line of enclosures in a bin filled with water and a small log. the dinosaur area has millipedes, assorted isopod species, hermit crabs, cave cockroach, and a scorpion of unknown species, i didnt see it and the sign just said scorpion.

 

[CMTM]

The ambassador area is actually three full rooms, two of which are not visible from the window.

The redfoot tortoises rotate in with the tamarins but as far as I know do not live there full-time. They actually get free range of the three ambassador rooms much of the time.