Spiders!

What You'll See

The Neville Public Museum is being invaded by eight-legged cuties. Cuties you say? How about creepy, crawly creatures that lurk in corners? What are they? Spiders of course! Whether you love them or hate them, beauty is in the eye of the beholder at the Neville Public Museum's latest exhibit, Spiders!

Exhibit Details

For many children, spiders are loved almost as much as dinosaurs and the exhibit, designed especially for kids, is full of hands-on interactives including how to build a spider web, how to sort spiders from insects and bugs, spider puzzles, a robotic tarantula, talking microscopes, slideshows and movie clips.

Live Spiders!

And of course, there will be live spiders and if you arrive at the right time, you can watch them feed! A central component of the exhibit is six cases with live spiders, including a trap-door spider that makes a burrow, a northern black widow and a fishing spider the size of a coaster.

The exhibit also contains nine sections ranging from mythology and arachnophobia, to life history of spiders, the different kinds of spiders, spiders in art, and the significance of spider researchers.

If you visit the exhibit on opening day, bring a live spider to have it identified.

Tours for school groups, daycares, daycamps and other groups are available for $1 per person, as is an educational packet with pre-visit materials.