Your Beginning
An important element of who you are is how you got here. It's a journey of transformation that we all have in common, begun as a meeting of cells and completed as the planet's newest arrival. View the marvels of early human development in the Your Beginning section of YOU! The Experience.
Enter a theater space where you are taken inside the womb for the amazing journey from conception to birth.
Featured Exhibits
- Make Room for Baby
- Watch the impact of a pregnancy on a mother's body as she adjusts physically and mentally to the changes inside her.
- Prenatal Development
- The beloved Museum exhibit of prenatal specimens returns in a stunning presentation.
- Museum Hours
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- Daily from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- Open daily except Thanksgiving and Christmas
- Museum Location
- Getting Here
More Exhibits
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Genetics and the Baby Chick Hatchery
Discover the complex interplay between genes and environmental cues that produce new life.
Recommended Links
- Human Embryology Animations
- See various portions of an embryo begin to take shape.
- Child Development Timeline
- A month-by-month guideline of a child's first year.
- Five Ways a Child Grows
- The first five years in five categories of development.
- Interactive Prenatal Development Timeline
- Detailed animations of development at a cellular level.
- Ultrasound Timeline: Fetal Growth
- Week-by-week ultrasounds with developmental milestones.