"Fore! The Planet" is a game with a message. It was created by the Academy of Natural sciences and it has toured North America. It's back home now through September 25th and it's free with your regular admission.
So you can take the family to see the butterflies and other live animals, then get in a game...or as many as you like...without leaving the building. Clubs and balls are "on the house".
Each hole has its own theme. The front nine deal with issues of nature. The back nine explain how we as humans fit into that system, and how we can be good stewards of the planet.
You'll probably find this course a little more challenging than the typical miniature golf course, but because it's indoors, in air conditioning, you're more likely to want to play it again and again.
Along the way, you might follow a migrating hawk, save an endangered species, navigate a polluted waterway, or learn why the dinosaurs died off. The lessons are part of the game but they don't get in the way.
The game is available during regular museum hours, weekdays from 10:00am to 4:30pm, weekends and holidays 10:00 to 5:00. They are open Labor Day.
For more information, visit http://www.ansp.org/fore-the-planet/index.php or phone 215-299-1000.
