Chik-Wauk Museum and Nature Center is now open for the 2016 season, with some new exhibits added for its seventh summer.
Inside the Nature Center building are six different stations to give information to visitors about the nature that is found along the Gunflint Trail. Stop in to meet the Nature Center’s program director, Jacqueline Mallinson.
The temporary exhibit this summer is called “Heard but not Seen,” and features two parts – both about birds.
“Heard but not Seen” focuses on eight different species of the birds singing in the forest surrounding Chik-Wauk. Each bird is pictured in the panel manufactured by Split Rock Studios. Several ways to learn each bird song is included, a mnemonic and a song recording. This exhibit is designed to move to the Nature Center in 2017.
The second part is contained in the cabinet which faces out the window toward the bay. The window view includes the floating loon nest platform. The cabinet contains samples of the manufactured platform, a loon nest replica, and of course, information about loons. Visitors will also be able to listen to different loon calls.
Chik-Wauk Museum is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily; the Nature Center is open between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. daily. The center, located at 28 Moose Pond Drive, is the first and only museum representing the history of the Gunflint Trail.
For more information call the center at (218) 388-9915.
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