Going Places

01-May-2000 GOING PLACES | THE MAGAZINE FOR TODAY'STRAVELER
May-June 2000 Issue

New on the scene is the Mann Museum and Outdoors located in Opelika. The 34,000 square foot facility is positioned on a 10-acre tract which has a spring creek, wetland marsh and a lake on the property. You will find the museum is like no other in the world. Museum visitors will see a variety of animals, birds, fish and reptiles living in their habitats. Displays in the museum relate to the actual activity of the animals. Murals drawn around the exhibits portray exactly where the animal was captured, allowing spectators to see natural environments. Some of the exhibits among the many you can expect to view will be of the bear family (polar, grizzly, brown and black) of North America in life-activity scenes, as well as displays of foxes, wild turkey, quail, grouse species, mountain mammals and waterfowl of North America. Then you can look at the freshwater and saltwater game fish of Alabama, authentic fossils of the sabertooth tiger, parts of mastodon tusks and bones, a 40,000-year-old Dire wolf head made from an actual skull, a 163 million-year-old clam fossil, 200-year-old traps and other artifacts

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