Science says fall is for winding down and spring is for, well, springing back. The Oregon Museum of Science and Innovation must know this as well as anyone.

OMSI’s Natural Science Hall will close on Tuesday, Sept. 30 for renovations before unveiling them next spring. It’s unclear now how close to Daylight Saving Time it will be by the time OMSI’s Natural Science Hall reopens, but it will have plenty of new features when that day comes.

The Natural Science Hall’s new namesake is Nancy Stueber, who spent 20 of her 38 years with OMSI as its president (she retired in 2020 with the title President Emeritus). Its exhibitions will center around climate change—particularly by sharing perspectives from several Oregonian communities, including “Indigenous, Black, Latine, rural, coastal, and youth

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