Spiders Pavillion - A Review

Spider Pavilion Oct 09 -Nov 8/09

Afforadability: 10/10 (Tickets are sold in half-hour intervals throughout the day at a rate of $3 for adults, $2 for students and seniors, and $1 for children. Museum Members are free of charge.)
Fun : 6/10
Education : 4/10



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The Spider Pavilion is held in the nearby man made metallic tent. It is a small garden where previous events such as the Butterfly Pavillion were held. Before you go into the pavilion, you can spend sometime in the Pavilion’s programming area, which is supposedly designed to acclimate you to the spider exhibit experience. You will find arachnids in glass "cages" with associated scientific description. There you will find the African Feather-Leg Tarantula, the Desert Wolf Spider, the Mexican Red-Rump Tarantula, the Indian Ornamental Tarantula and few more. Click on the above album.

Then you are led into the metallic/garden tent where you can get in contact with the spiders. The spiders are free and are hanging around. There are many types of spiders with beautiful colors. . I came 1 inch close with one of them. Unfortunately, the tour was not guided and you are left wandering around. Not much info was present next to these spiders. We may have had to ask the people in the tent; however there main concern was to keep the spiders touch free! I hope that they can make the tours better guided and informative in the future.