Brookings Interpretive Center

Girl experiements with preparation of vegetables as foodThe Brookings Interpretive Center offers an indoor, family-friendly destination for themed exhibits encouraging hands-on discovery, exploration and learning. Nestled between the Climatron® and the Shoenberg Temperate House, and adjacent to the Doris I. Schnuck Children’s Garden, the Brookings Interpretive Center is ideally situated to attract families, school and youth groups and individual visitors.

Since 2008, the Brookings Interpretive Center has hosted innovative, interactive staffed exhibits: Exploring Trees Inside and Out, EarthWays: Living the Green Life, DinoQuest: A Tropical Trek Through Time, TREEmendous and Plants and People: China.

 

Currently:

Girl harvests pretend onions at Digging In exhibitDigging In to the Roots of Our Food
April–December, 2013
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily

How far did your lunch travel? Of the 400,000 or so plant species, how many are edible? Are we really what we eat? This fun, hands-on, interactive exhibit will challenge visitors of all ages to explore what they eat in ways that spark curiosity, ignite ideas and inspire action. Test your Food IQ, calculate how far your food travels, travel the globe to “eat” at another family’s kitchen table and take home a Family Food Challenge journal of your own!