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Plotosaur Mosasaur swimming in blue purple water

Performance

Ocean Encounters

Take the plunge with NHM's live puppet show

Date

Friday, Saturday, Sunday
10:30 am and 11:30 am
 

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Location

Commons Theater
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Tickets

$10 per person. General Admission also required.
Free for Members. Reservation required.
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Dive into a prehistoric undersea adventure with our brand new, live performance starring life-size sea creature puppets. Join us as our amazing puppeteers and paleontologists bring these extinct animals to life.

Featuring a Plotosaur mosasaur and Ammonites, a Desmostylian in a kelp forest and a Megamouth eating Bioluminescent Plankton, Ocean Encounters will take you under the sea and into the prehistoric past. 

PHand holding a pink and brown ammonite puppet with tentacles and a spiral shell

Ammonites like this, designed by paleoartist Cullen Townsend, will appear in NHM's new Ocean Encounters puppet show in NHM Common's theater.

shiny brown and pink hippo-like puppet surrounded by sea kelp

Ocean Encounter's Desmostylian puppet

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Ammonites like this, designed by paleoartist Cullen Townsend, will appear in NHM's new Ocean Encounters puppet show in NHM Common's theater.

Ocean Encounter's Desmostylian puppet

Ocean Encounters is family friendly, and each presentation is around 20 minutes long. The show is general admission. ADA Accommodations Available. Please inquire with an associate upon arrival.

A paleoart rendition of Eupachydiscus sp. by Cullen Townsend.
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