" Denver Museum of Nature & Science "

I have a lot to say after our visit to Denver Museum of NATURE & SCIENCE during the first week end of May. I know not how far I will be able to describe. The Museum is located in Colorado Blvd, about 45 minutes drive from our place of stay.

The entry fee for an adult is US$10 and we started the round around Noon. The Museum has separate sections for anthropology,zoology,paleontology,health Sciences. Rocky Mountain Region's most enduring and inspiring Institution is this Museum which is renowned exploratory research of nature and science that affect our lives everyday.

The Museum houses :-

1) PHIPPS IMAX THEATER
2) GATES PLANETARIUM
3) THE MUSEUM SHOP
4) T-REX CAFE

THE EXHIBITIONS - CURRENT:-

1) BENJAMIN FRANKLIN IN SEARCH OF A BETTER WORLD - ( We were lucky to see this special as the exhibition has been sponsered for two weeks only by Philadelphia, the native town of Franklin)

2)ART IN SCIENCE/ SCIENCE IN ART
3)DISCOVERY ZONE
4)EGYPTIAN MUMMIES
5)GEMS & MINERALS
6)HALL OF LIFE
7)NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN CULTURES
8) PREHISTORIC JOURNEY
9)SPACE ODYSSEY
10) WILD LIFE EXHIBITION

Benjamin Franklin's contributions in search of a better world even today resonate in U.S.A. He was a Scientist, Entrepreneur, Diplomat, Inventor and Philanthropist. He started his life as Master Printer. His inventions includes bbifocals, swim fins, flexible catheter. He served as the Post master General of north America, co-founder of first public hospital, circulating library, to name a few. He had his quirts aswell in playing Guitar & violin.

As a diplomat, he is involved in signing FIVE major documents. The declaration of independence in July4, 1776 when colonial America freed itself from the clutches of Great Briton. The second one is Constitution of the United states of America on sep17,1787.

the Franklin Exhibition has many computer based interactive kiosks, hands-on displays that borrow Benjamin Franklin's curiosity, wit and wisdom. His quotes are famous and you all can have a feel of them:-

*“Time is money.”

“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”
“I would rather have it said, He lived usefully, than, He died rich.”
“Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.”
“He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.”
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
“To pour forth benefits for the common good is divine.”
“If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all, much depends on the people who are to be governed.”
“Reading makes a full Man, Meditation a profound Man, discourse a clear Man.”
“I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly...the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America...He is besides, tho’ a little vain and silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.”
“Work as if you were to live 100 Years, Pray as if you were to die To-morrow.”
“The noblest question in the world is What Good may I do in it?”
“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”
I leave it to the readers' imagination for the details of other exhibitions. It was almost 5p.m. when we decided to call it a day, as my two grand sons became hungry and restless.