Colorado Adventure Day 7

Day 7 - Denver Museum of Nature and Science

This is a BIG science museum!
The Denver Museum of Nature and Science is downtown right next to the Zoo. I like that the parking is free. We also go lucky, because admission was free with our Reading Museum membership.

There are so many exhibits, it's difficult to pick a favorite.





The Gems and Minerals display in Coors Mineral Hall is really neat. The entrance is a wooden mine you walk into. The pictures don't do this justice, because with some of the displays it makes it feel like you're in a mine seeing it. Below is one huge rock formation that stretches back far.
 Below is the largest rhodochrosite found, and it's really big!

 Below is a large collection of rhodochrosite. This was neat because it was found in Colorado. We liked the displays of the Colorado rocks the best.

 This is one of their dioramas. They also had a display showing how it was made, which was impressive when you realize all the work that went into it. The sign said this was the last one created by the museum.

 They had a large exhibit of America Indian artifacts, which was very interesting, and a wooden hogan the kids could walk into.

 The Expedition Health exhibit was very hands on. When you got there you were given a plastic card that you put in a computer and input basic information. There were stations around the rooms where you inserted your card and did health things, like pulse. Below is a machine that measured your stride. Then you could go to a second machine and it told you things about your stride, like it would take me 17 minutes to walk around Echo Lake.

 The dinosaur exhibit was neat because of how it was arranged. You started in the era before dinosaurs, and as you walked the exhibit the displays and time changed until you were at the end of the dinosaur era. And they had a lot of displays.

 There was a small display on Gem Carvings of Russian Folk Life. Really amazing when you consider these were hand carved of various gems.