Tuesday morning Thomas and Dick headed into town to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. It was the second stop at a dino museum on our itinerary.
We found free parking across from the entrance to the Museum.
Tuesday morning Thomas and Dick headed into town to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. It was the second stop at a dino museum on our itinerary.
We found free parking across from the entrance to the Museum.
This T. Rex skeleton greets the visitor when entering the Museum.
We bought tickets to the Museum, the Planetarium, and to a space exploration hands-on exhibit. The Planetarium show was a tour of the solar system shown on a side-sloping wide-wide-angle screen similar to IMAX.
The space exploration show included a demonstration of spectum decomposition and recomposition, a hands-on demonstration of a Martian dust storm, and a set of core rock samples with descriptions.
Here, Thomas touches a visitor from interplanetary space, a fragment from the iron meterorite that created the Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona 50,000 years ago. Lynne and Dick visited the Barringer Crater in 1982.
Later on in our visit, Dick and Thomas had ice cream bars. Thomas had his favorite, a Chocolate Eclair.
This is the view up from the food court.
Thomas made a donation by placing a coin in the mouth of this extinct sabertooth cat's mouth to make him roar.
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Last modified on 2003 July 19
