Cleveland Museum of Natural History is set to show off (some) of its big transformation - Crain's Cleveland Business

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is astir to springiness visitors a sneak peek astatine its large transformation.

The depository announced it volition beryllium closed connected Tuesday, Dec. 6, and past volition reopen astatine 10 a.m. the adjacent day, Wednesday, Dec. 7, offering escaped admittance and a accidental to look astatine immoderate of the "new and reimagined spaces and exhibits" that are cardinal to its $150 cardinal remake. The depository said the transformation, slated for completion successful 2024, is astir halfway done.

In December, the depository said, it besides volition unveil installations of creation works and "temporary exhibits that see a virtual-reality acquisition and a close-up look astatine the world's smallest species."

A caller ticketing argumentation is successful place, too. As of Wednesday, each visitors indispensable reserve tickets earlier they get astatine the museum. Advance tickets are disposable for members to reserve and nonmembers to bargain online astatine CMNH.org/visit oregon by telephone astatine 216-231-4600.

Here's immoderate of what visitors volition spot starting Wednesday:

• A "reimagined" Smead Discovery Center that volition "continue to promote hands-on learning for children done the summation of adjacent much interactive experiences."

• The updated Murch Auditorium volition diagnostic 3D movies done a concern with D3D Cinema. The auditorium's inaugural films volition beryllium "Superpower Dogs," described arsenic "an immersive escapade featuring the inspiring bravery of immoderate of the world's astir astonishing dogs," and "Dinosaurs Alive!," which brings to beingness creatures from the Triassic to the Cretaceous period.

• The Nathan and Fannye Shafran Planetarium is reopening, implicit with a bundle upgrade and caller seating that allows for much customized configurations.

• Corning Gallery, a caller location for rotating exhibits that "highlight the intersection of creation and nature," volition big its archetypal installations: the museum's bound, first-edition acceptable of 19th-century creator and naturalist John James Audubon's "Birds of America," and its acceptable of Andy Warhol's "Endangered Species," a portfolio of 10 screenprints.

• A caller Wade Oval entrance/welcoming patio volition invitation guests into the depository portion linking the instauration to Wade Oval and neighboring taste institutions. It besides provides entree to a revamped Origins Café with indoor and outdoor seating and a caller menu.

• Birdly, described arsenic a "full-body, immersive virtual-reality flight-simulator experience," volition "allow guests to soar among winged wildlife — from pterosaurs to butterflies — done a synthesis of haptic engineering, robotics, crippled plan and biomechanics." The depository besides volition motorboat virtual world features called "Jurassic Flight" and "Butterfly."