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Museum/Art

Imaginary Spaces: Selections from The Menil Collection

Starts Friday, August 22, 2008
Ends Sunday, March 1, 2009
Imaginary Spaces examines three centuries of paintings, sculpture and works on paper that depict invented landscapes and hypothetical or "built" environments.

Moneyville

Starts Saturday, September 27, 2008
Ends Sunday, January 18, 2009

This pulsating "city" shows kids how money makes the world go 'round. This exhibit at the Children's Museum creates opportunities for kids to develop an understanding of finances through role play and involvement in interactive challenges.

Dinosaur Mummy CSI: Cretaceous Science Investigation

Starts Friday, October 10, 2008
Ends Sunday, January 11, 2009
The exhibition features Leonardo, the most perfectly fossilized plant-eating dinosaur ever discovered—with almost all of his skin still intact.

Body Worlds 2 & the Brain - Our Three Pound Gem: The Original Exhibition of Real Human Bodies

Starts Friday, October 10, 2008
Ends Sunday, February 22, 2009
Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds 2 showcases more than 200 real human body specimens, including more than 20 whole bodies; healthy and unhealthy organs; and body parts and slices; all preserved through the revolutionary process of Plastination. "The Three Pound Gem," discusses the human brain including brain performance, improvement, development and function.

Max Ernst in the Garden of Nymph Ancolie

Starts Friday, October 31, 2008
Ends Sunday, February 15, 2009
Approximately 75 important and rarely exhibited paintings, drawings and sculptures by Ernst from the early 1930s to the late 1940s will be on display at the Menil Collection. Ernst explores themes of Eros and nature's relationship with culture and technology, in strange and surreal landscapes of dense foliage.

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