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A live two-toed sloth is coming to Richmond's Science Museum

Sabrina Moreno

A sloth hangs upside down from ropes and wooden poles in an exhibit, its shaggy brown fur gripping the rope. A red information panel and a blue mural are visible in the background. — The sloth you could meet (from behind the glass). Photo: Courtesy of Little Ray's Exhibitions

A two-toed sloth is coming to the Science Museum of Virginia.

Why it matters: You won't get to hold it, but you can get up close and personal with the famously slow creature starting next Saturday.

Driving the news: The sloth is part of a touring exhibition called "Survival of the Slowest that will be in town all summer.

It's an educational showcase from Little Ray's Exhibitions about how animals usually seen as lazy or sluggish actually use those traits to stay alive.
The exhibition will briefly turn the Science Museum into a mini zoo filled with live creatures like a hedgehog, ball python, bearded dragon, box turtle and a Brazilian black tarantula.
Visitors can even interact with some of them.

Yes, but: The sloth will stay in its enclosure, museum spokesperson Miles McQuiggan tells Axios.

If you go: The exhibit run May 23-Sept. 7. Adult admission is $24 ($19 for the museum, $5 for the exhibition) but members get a free preview next Friday, May 22.

The museum is at 2500 W. Broad St. and open Tuesday-Sunday, 9:30am-5pm.

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