ASL Tour- Earthquakes and Tsunami’s

The American Museum of Natural History offers American Sign Language interpreted tours on varying topics, on selected Saturdays throughout the year. Experience informative, entertaining and inspiring presentations of permanent and special exhibitions for both deaf and hearing audiences with simultaneous signed and spoken tours. Programs with Sign Language are intended primarily for the Deaf community. ASL students may attend, but we do not sign attendance sheets.

These tours are both spoken and signed.

Registration required: email accessibility@amnh.org or call 212.769.5567.
1:30 p.m.—2:30 p.m.
All tours meet in Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda, second floor
FREE with Museum admission

Upcoming ASL Interpreted tours:
Earthquakes and Tsunami’s
Saturday, May 2
A tsunami devastated the Andaman Islands and the surrounding area on Boxing Day in 2004. More than 230,000 people were killed. What caused the tsunami? Could we have predicted it? Why did so many people die? What have we done since then to prepare for any recurrence? These and other questions will be addressed in a sign language tour of the Hall of Planet Earth. We will find out what causes earthquakes and tsunamis. We will also discuss other recent events such as the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 and its effects on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.