But the antechamber to Lowe's replica contains a series of panels explaining the significance of the real thing.
One section displays the stages of pupae (400 are delivered to the museum each week), and large photos and panels explain everything from butterfly feeding to mating.
Most of the photographs also come with short text panels explaining the imagery and giving a brief outline of the deceased person's life.
Amid panels explaining the history of the busiest toll road in the country, visitors could yank, pull and play with just about everything in sight.
In both parts of the exhibit, entitled "Noah's Flood and Ancient Shipwrecks," videos, artifacts and graphic panels explain the expeditions and story behind them.
We wandered into an area with a 19th-century firetruck, accompanied by panels explaining horses' contributions during the industrial era and during World War I (exemplified by a gas mask made for a horse).
The current show, "The Lens of Impressionism: Photography and Painting Along the Normandy Coast, 1850-1874," originated athehe University of Michigan Museum of Art for a more academic audience and included extensive text panels explaining the research behind the collection.
Mr. Bernal, a British-born and Cambridge-educated polymath who taught Chinese political history at Cornell from 1972 until 2001, spent a fair amount of time on those panels explaining what his work did not mean to imply.
As one of the exhibition's informative panels explains, it was used in the funeral procession for President Abraham Lincoln in New York on April 25 , 1865 which was attended by more than 75,000 mourners.
After two weeks of lectures and panels explaining the basics of book publishing, students are divided into groups to form their own fictional publishing houses, designing covers, developing marketing plans and selling the finished products only days later to industry professionals like Sessalee Hensley, the fiction buyer for Barnes & Noble.
