Assabet River NWR

Visitor Center

 

The exhibits within the center introduce the visitors to the wildlife of the different habitats represented by the Refuges - intertidal zones, salt marshes, sand dunes, pine barrens, rivers, freshwater wetlands and mixed forests. There are panels describing their characteristics and accompanying models of the habitats. There are interactive features to keep children and adults equally engaged. These include sounds of the animals such as bird calls, beavers slapping their tails on the water. Others include pull out drawers with real life specimens of insects and shells.

The exhibits includes a "Night Room” which gives visitors, especially children, the sounds of the night. Crickets, owls and other animals of the night. There are other exciting sound and light effects of lightning and thunder in the background.