Burlington, VT, 05401
Toll-Free-1-877-ECHO
URL : http://www.echovermont.org
overview : ECHO at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain educates and delights people about the Ecology, Culture, History, and Opportunities for stewardship of the Lake Champlain Basin. Boston-based exhibit designer, Amaze Design, Inc. has developed the ECHO experience which interprets the ecological, geological, biological, and cultural history of the Lake Champlain Basin and includes Awesome Forces Theater (800 million years compressed into 6 minutes of crashing, flashing, caving glaciers and continental collision!), a water-play space for kids to build dams and float boats, and an Atlantic tide pool touch tank with periwinkle snails, horseshoe crabs, sea stars, anemones and urchins. Young visitors may enjoy the working miniature lighthouse or pop in on a painted turtle in Discovery Place, while other kids may control a high-tech underwater adventure as they get a glimpse of the replica historic General Butler shipwreck. From Abenaki story-telling to the dynamics of Lake Champlain's underwater wave the ECHO adventure immerses guests in the sights, sounds, smells and feel of past and present life in the Basin. A series of special touring exhibits are showcased in the changing exhibit gallery three times a year.
hours (subject to change) : ECHO at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain is open to the public daily year-round 10 am to 5 pm - extended hours on Thursdays to 8 pm. Closed only Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
topics : aquariums
