Academy of Natural Sciences

This afternoon we all piled into Katie and Todd's new electric van and went downtown to the Academy of Natural Sciences on Logan Square on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. There was a special exhibition that opened this week that Henry was particularly interested in seeing. Todd purchased a family pass for the museum. This was also one of my favorite museums when I was growing up in Philadelphia.

The special exhibit was Extreme Deep: Mission to the Abyss and it explores the mysteries of the deep sea. Henry had been recently reading about the undersea world and was fascinated with the creatures of the deep oceans. There was a lot to see in this exhibit. I later asked him what was his favorite part of the exhibit and he expressed his love of the submarine control room where he could control the camera views of the deep sea and look out the windows.

But of course most of the time in the museum was spent in the hall of the dinosaurs. Little kids do love those dinosaurs and this museum had a bunch of them. Henry loved telling Clara about them as they passed by the exhibits. A lot of these were the same exhibits I saw and loved as a child. Then we passed through the halls of the dioramas of large mammals. Henry and Clara went along saying hi to the various animals.

We had a wonderful time and the kids got all tired out. There was more to see but there will be other times now that they have the family membership. We left the museum and walked across the square and down the parkway to the public splash pad.