A heritage center is a museum facility primarily dedicated to the presentation of historical and cultural information about a place and its people, including, to some degree, natural features. Heritage centers typically differ from most traditional museums in usually featuring a high proportion of "hands-on" exhibits and live or life-like specimens and practical artifacts. A museum is typically a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment. ... A history resource for kids -Chronology of Events in History, Mythology, and Folklore. ... The word culture comes from the Latin root colere (to inhabit, to cultivate, or to honor). ... The deepest visible-light image of the universe, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. ... Exhibition is a word with several meanings. ... In biology, specimen is an individual animal or a plant or a microorganism that is used as a representative to study the properties of the whole population of that species. ... An artifact (also artefact) is a term coined by Sir Julian Huxley meaning any object or process resulting from human activity. ...