When I lived in Albuquerque one of my favorite places was the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science. I have to admit that back in the 80s the museum wasn't much. It had a couple of dinosaur skeletons and some other items. It was really interesting and I enjoyed the exhibits. My favorite was the giant leg bones of a Seismosaurus, which is the largest dinosaur ever discovered.
It used to call New Mexico home.
Today the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science has grown into one of the premier museums in the country. There are so many exhibits now it rivals the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, which is just amazing if you get a chance to go there.
Information:
The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science is a natural history and science museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico near Old Town Albuquerque. The Museum was founded in 1986. It operates as a public revenue facility of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.
Exhibits:
Origins
Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Jurassic Age of Super Giants
New Mexico's Seacoast
Age of Volcanoes
Rise of the Recent - Evolving Grasslands
Cave Experience
New Mexico's Ice Age
Other permanent exhibits include an interactive planetarium where programs are held daily. There is also a floor of exhibit galleries dedicated to astronomy and space exploration, as well as an observation deck for viewing through the telescope. The observatory opens only occasionally, usually during evenings when the museum itself is open to the public. The Fossilworks exhibit shows people removing material from fossilized dinosaur bones. The museum houses a "Naturalist Center" that is home to live animals and insects, and there is also a geologic exhibit on the minerals of the region.
Dinosaurs exhibited
Bronze statues of two dinosaurs created by artist David A. Thomas, a Pentaceratops named "Spike" and an Albertosaurus named "Alberta", stand at the entrance. Spike and Alberta were installed at the museum in the mid-1980s, with Spike being put in place in 1985 and Alberta joining a few years later in 1987. Many dinosaur fossils have been found in New Mexico, and a few of the ones on display in the museum are only known from New Mexico.
The Museum also houses changing exhibits, the Hope Cafe, NatureWorks Discovery Store, as well as the Dynatheater, which is a 3-D theater similar to IMAX. The films shown are typically documentary style, focusing on a broad range of subjects. The exterior of the museum features "A Walk Through New Mexico," a landscape representation of the topographical and geologic features of New Mexico.
The Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
except for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day.
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