Fossils and Rocks

         Summer marks another year of visiting museums and other places of interest around the state. Similar to previous years, I visited the Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point. The nice thing about the places at Thanksgiving Point is that they add new exhibits and activities for visitors each year.

         My kid is at the age where curiosity and inquisitiveness are features. The photo above is the rack of replicas in the workshop for kids at the museum. The presenters taught short lessons about fossils and explained some of the specimens visitors could touch. I was surprised that he enjoyed the presentations.

         Touch was the theme I noticed during my most recent visit. At the displays, there were mini models that visitors could touch to get a feel of the display they were looking at. I figured it was probably a way to mitigate people who get too handsy with everything.

         We spent a little over two hours at the place. It was much more than the previous years. It was because we spent more time reading the descriptions of each exhibit.

         Keeping up with the family tradition, we picked up a few more minerals for our collection. We picked up a selenite crystal, lapis lazuli, and amethyst. I'm starting to think my kid may be interested in geology (there will be further evidence about this in a future post about another museum we visited).

         It was time well spent with the family.

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