The NC museum of Natural Science

Today we went to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. We all wore our Faith Christian Academy t-shirts. On the back of JD’s shirt it says, “It’s ok to use big words, I’m home schooled.” (Smile) There were four floors to the museum. We loved every bit of it.

  

The first floor had information about Coastal NC and whale bones and such hanging above us. I loved how some of the displays had real fish in them. Most were statues on stages scenery. In the center were cases and cases of different wildlife that lives in NC.

The second floor exhibited NC mountains scenes with the specific animals and plants from that area as well as the Piedmont areas. They also had underground exhibits showing roots and minerals. Lyndell and I spent a lot of time looking at the different kinds of minerals and raw gems they had.

The third floor had dinosaurs, fossils, snakes, and a tropical room with brightly colored tree frogs in them. There was also a huge globe that showed world deserts and rainforests and such too.

The fourth floor had a living conservatory with butterflies in it as well as Arthropod (insects) exhibits. The last stop on our long journey was a Naturalist center where they had everything from taxidermy animals you could touch to uncut minerals.

We asked JD what his favorite things were and he said, “The bones (a skeleton to put together), the café, and leaving.” I asked him about the butterfly conservatory because he asked the guide a dozen well educated questions about those colorful creatures. He should have just asked for an application when he was done because now he knows as much as she did.