Jun
15
Dallas and Nature and Science Go Together
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Dallas is the perfect place for a summer vacation, especially if you and your family are scientific oriented. The Museum of Nature and Science, located at 3535 Grand Avenue, well at least the Nature Building is; the Science building is located at 1318 S. 2nd Avenue; and the Planetarium Building is located at 1620 1st Avenue. The Museum of Nature & Science is the result of a merger in 2006 between the Dallas Museum of Natural History, The Science Place and the Dallas Children’s Museum, which are currently located in Dallas’ Fair Park, not far from any of the five star hotels Dallas has for its vacationers.
The Museum will let your entire family experience exciting, engaging and innovate exhibitions. The collections and research programs for children, students, families, and teachers are all welcome, because the mission of the Museum is to inspire minds through nature and science. The permanent exhibitions include science and wildlife interactive learning centers, like the NetWorks, the Texas wildlife dioramas, the Paleontology Lab, and real life dinosaur fossils. You’ll get to see creatures such as the 32 foot long reptile, a life sized robotic Glyptodont, which is an extinct relative of the modern armadillos and you’ll see giant sea turtles.
Your children will get to actually dig out replica fossils at the Dino Dig. The Museum is a perfect atmosphere where families and children may learn and explore together. It’s safe, self-paced, individualized, spontaneous, non-linear and plenty of exploratory spaces that any child can learn to understand the nature of things by touching, exploring and dreaming. In the science building alone, there are over 200 permanent hands-on exhibits on astronomy, physics, health, nature, robotics, and a special young children’s venue.
The Museum of Nature and Science is better than camp any day, so book a room now, you won’t want to miss the installation: ‘Water’, which runs till August 22, 2010, and takes a look beneath the oceans, above the clouds and all around the world to discover the amazing things that water can do such as shaping the canyons and peaks of tomorrow, or sustain life here and now. Your children can explore the over sized interactive globe, see how animals have adapted to deal with water challenges or walk through dioramas that mimic the effects of erosion. You may find it hard to pull them away, but that’s okay, because there’s always the next day to come back and explore some more.
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