Our exhibits are designed to be thought provoking. We have three areas to concentrate on:

• Inside our main center
• The outer, stand-alone, classroom sized buildings
• Outdoor exhibits around the trails

Main Center: Our main building houses our most delicate and complicated exhibits. It functions as a typical science museum with hands-on, interactive displays and educational resources. Displays include:

• A dark sky exhibit
• Small walk-through cave displaying geological formations and cave creatures

Outer buildings: Behind the main center. Each building stands on their own, is built with alternative materials and has an individual energy monitoring system. We will have a list to compare the costs of building versus energy usage. A quarterly report will document any updates or renovation. The outer buildings function as individual research vessels, tactile exhibits of various forms of building materials, and look enough like little hou ses to help people envision using those materials in their own home or for expansion.

To keep the research consistent, all outer buildings:

• are the same size
• have the same number of windows
• are facing the same direction
• have nothing substantial too near or above them to create a shadow (thus skewing the energy efficiency reports)
• are built with passive solar design

Outer buildings include the following alternative materials

• Rammed earth wall
• Papercrete
• Hay bale construction
• Cork
• Bamboo
• Cordwood
• Adobe

Outdoor exhibits: What better way to see the environment we are in than to walk through it? The MoSS hopes to fill a niche for Parks and Recreation by providing a trail system. Featured throughout the trails are:

• Child’s play area
• Bamboo garden
• Zen sand garden
• Rock garden
• Xeriscape area
• Picnic area