Weekend Hunsakers: A day at the museum.....The American Museum of Natural History!

I found out one night studying at the library that NY has a program similar to Chicago where the residents can check out museum passes like books. These were great in Chicago and we took family and friends to see the sights often without the growing admission price tag! So this last weekend we took the kids down to NY to see the Natural History Museum. This had to be the coolest Natural History Museum I have ever been to! Usually I like the aquarium and the zoo....or the art museums, but this is already a favorite!

There were several floors of these glass enclosed taxidermy animals. Most of them I had never heard of. It was fun to see the girls' reactions to life size alaskan moose, elephants, and bears! The lighting was ambient, so the pictures aren't fabulous especially because they were all taken with my phone but not to bad considering. I couldn't resist taking this picture of David with the girls! I love to see how they interact together, truly he has a special relationship with them that I adore! He was telling them about how he used to shoot these animals when he was a little kid in Wyoming. I didn't know they had African Bongos in Wyoming!!

The museum is known around the world for two specific things. Their 94' life size replica of a Blue Whale that hangs cantilevered from the ceiling, and their dinosaur exhibit. The girls will remember the dinosaurs even though they were getting pretty tired by that point in the day. The presentation was immaculate! Couldn't be any better.

They perked right up when we got to the "touch" room called the Discovery Room. They had clipboards with things to find in the room and trivia....the girls went straight to a set of three tables that contained memory match games.