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Article: NEW EXHIBITS HOPE TO KEEP MUSEUM FROM GOING THE WAY OF THE DINOSAURS.(Lifestyle)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- November 13, 1997
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The Burke Museum had to look no further than its own dinosaur exhibits for clues to its future - to survive, it was going to have to adapt.
And that's exactly what it's done with ``Life and Times of Washington State,'' a tightly edited exhibit on its main floor that has a story to tell - the co-evolution of the state's geology and biology.
This is not your parents' natural history museum, filled with musty specimens and closets full of curios. It's evolved from its forebears as the elephant did from the mastodon.
With less than .5 percent of the Burke's treasures on display, the design represents natural selection at its most unforgiving. Only ...