Masters of the Night: The True Story of Bats

Enter through a neo-Gothic portal and learn about the upside-down world of bats. Multi-sensory interactive displays and lifelike models bring the mysteries of bats out of the dark! Lose your misconceptions about these night creatures and discover their ecological importance as well as the true wonders of the bat world. Listen through giant, bat-like ears and maneuver a bat model with a joystick to hunt food. Use laser-simulated sonar to understand bat "echolocation." At the bat nursery, learn the nurturing traits of mother bats.

Visit Cave Corner, next to Masters of the Night: The True Story of Bats. Meet interesting insects and spiders that call caves home. Study cave specimens on loan from Luray Caverns and the Lora Robins Gallery of Design From Nature. Check out Dave Bunnell's stunning photographs of caves.