The NEW UT Natural History Museum

AT the end of May we went on a lot of fieldtrips with Brigham's preschool class. We went with him to the new Natural History Mueseum up at the UofU. It was awesome. The building itself was amazing with the moderness and architecture, etc.

The had a little area called "Our Backyard" displayng the things that we would find on our own yards. Jessie loved playing in the water.

Christian was showing Sis Warburton a lizard.

They had these awesome animal costumes that the kids could put on and fly or run around the room. Great fun!

Then we headed to the dinosaur display and they all three got to see how big a dinosaur footprint was in relation to them.

By this point, their attention spans were gone and my hands were full so I don't have any more pictures, but there were 2 more whole levels of fun interesting things!
One of my favorite was this large tank that had the whole Wasatch Mountain range inside of it and you could fill it with water or drain the water out. On the mountains they had lines and labels for all the lakes that had occupied our valley and the time periods in which they were. I found that so interesting. We filled the tank up to Lake Bonneville and I showed the boys where we lived in Bountiful and how we would have been under water. So cool!


On our way out of the building Brigham found this treasure and want to pose with him. I would recommend the Museum if you have some time here in SLC. We will have to find you a coupon!