Audiovisual presentations about earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tectonic plate drift, the Big Bang theory and many other aspects of the "living Earth" can be watched and studied here. Two-and-a-half hours of video material and many hours of reading on state-of-the-art information boards make it necessary to spend a lot of time here or come back for subsequent visits.

This is not a quiet museum where one speaks in hushed tones-sound and even smell are as much a part of the experience as sight and touch.

There are local fossils and minerals to be seen as well as models of dinosaurs, that did not ever exist locally. Rocks and fossils from all over the worlds are intermingled with displays of replicas of ancient forests and dinosaurs. Here one finds a real meteor from outer space, the oldest rock in the world, fossils of raindrops, huge slabs of petrified wood and copper ore. A fossilized 5 foot tall dinosaur thighbone can be touched (or even embraced).