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May 5 2005

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Tim McKenna - Himmelrich, Inc.
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BUGS!-3D IMAX Film Opens at Maryland Science Center

Beginning Friday, May 27, 2005, audiences can get a bugs-eye view of the jungle and watch big drama unfold in the lives of earth’s smaller inhabitants in Bugs!-3D. The film’s dramatic 3D presentation puts viewers in the action—from the bugs’ perspective—as some of the insects are magnified 250,000 times their actual size to make the life and death struggle of insects truly larger-than-life. The 40-minute feature will be shown daily in the MIE Properties IMAX Theater through September.
Bugs!-3D stars Papilio, a butterfly, and Hierodula, a praying mantis, who live in the foliage around an abandoned shack near a river in Southeast Asia. Surrounded by dense jungle and a cast of characters that includes, leaf cutter ants, rhino beetles, spiny katydids, scorpions, tarantulas, and a colony of three million bats, Papilio and Heirodula progress through the stages of their life cycles culminating in the ultimate confrontation of predator and prey.

Bugs!-3D will be shown daily. Admission for the film can be purchased as part of admission to the Maryland Science Center.

The Maryland Science Center is located at 601 Light Street at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. For information and tickets, visit www.marylandsciencecenter.org or call the 24-Hour Information Line at 410-685-5225, TDD: 410-962-0223.

The Maryland Science Center at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor is visited by more than 550,000 people each year. Popular exhibits include: Dinosaur Mysteries which features more than a dozen full-size dinosaurs and interactive paleontology activities, an exploration of the day in the life of the human body in Your Body: The Inside Story, and add…dozens of interactive experiments in Newton’s Alley. Other popular attractions in the museum include the Kids Room, the five-story MIE Properties IMAX Theater, and the world-famous Davis Planetarium.