Let’s begin our tour starting at the entrance from the second floor rotunda walkway that overlooks the taxidermy elephant.Ī tall doorway leads into the darkened gallery. Each thematic section includes a brief description of the space, a summary of the content, and detailed descriptions of key images, objects, or tactile elements in that section. This tour divides the exhibit gallery into nine thematic sections corresponding to big titles on the gallery walls, and takes you through them one by one. If you enter from the side facing the Constitution Avenue staircase, walk through the exhibit to the other entrance. The tour begins at the entrance from the rotunda walkway on the second floor. This visual description tour was developed to make the exhibition’s key messages, images, and objects more accessible to visitors who are blind or have low vision. The exhibition is located on the second floor of the museum and primarily features large photographs, as well as objects, some tactile and interactive elements, and a theater with a narrated program.Īccessibility features in this exhibition include tactile objects with Braille, a tactile kiosk with Braille and audio description, and signs at each entrance with a QR code to this descriptive tour. Discover how light pollution affects the night sky, wildlife, and humans, and what you can do about it. To create bird-friendly buildings, Audubon recommends they "turn off exterior decorative lighting, extinguish spot and flood-lights, substitute strobe lighting where possible, reduce lobby and atrium lighting wherever possible, turn off interior lighting especially on upper floors, substitute task and area lighting for workers staying late or pull window coverings, down-shield exterior lighting to eliminate all light directed upward and horizontal glare, and install motion sensors and automatic controls wherever possible.Welcome to Lights Out: Recovering Our Night Sky at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Lights Out works on mitigating this problem by requesting building owners and managers turn lights off during the migration season from midnight to 6 a.m.
If they aren't killed, their flight patterns are disrupted, causing them to become disoriented and circle in confusion and interfering with their daytime cycle of resting and refueling. Attracted by the bright, artificial lights at night, birds fly into buildings and glass windows and are often killed by the impact. After feral cats, buildings and windows are the second-greatest killer of American birds, especially during the two times a year when they migrate, flying between breeding and wintering habitats.
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