I hadn’t been to this museum in quite a while, so it was nostalgic as well as exciting to revisit. I was amazed at the sheer variety and size of the museum-spanning two buildings-that I hadn’t remembered! There was everything from taxidermy to skeletons to gemstones to interactive lab activities to live animals. Unfortunately, certain exhibits such as the Butterfly Garden were closed temporarily, so we were unable to go to those today. I noticed that the lab activities were quite similar to the Biotech class at Cary Academy, utilizing tools such as micropipettes and centrifuges to detect disease in (plastic) frogs.
ABOVE: Saving the frogs!
All this talk about science really reminds me of Bill Nye the Science Guy. Did you know that legend has it that if you spin counterclockwise while saying “Bill Nye the Science Guy” 3 times he will materialize (scientifically) before you?
(The above video is highly scientific music that you can listen to while reading my highly scientific blog post)