New Mexico

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Art: Casa San Ysidro, Center for Contemporary Arts, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Harwood Museum, Indian Arts Research Center at the School of American Research, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Millicent Rogers Museum, Museum Hill, Museum of Fine Arts, The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Museum of International Folk Art, Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, New Mexico Creates, New Mexico State University Art Museum, SITE Santa Fe, Taos Art Museum, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, University of New Mexico Art Museum

Special Interests: American International Rattlesnake Museum, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, International UFO Museum, Museum of Turquoise, National Atomic Museum, National Hispanic Cultural Center, New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, New Mexico State University Zuhl Collection, NMOCA,Old Coal Mine Museum, Santa Fe Children's Museum, The Unser Racing Museum, Tinkertown Museum, U.S. Southwest Soaring Museum, War Eagles Air Museum

New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science

A trip through this museum will take you through 12 billion years of natural history, from the formation of the universe to the present day. Begin by looking at a display of stones and gems, then stroll through the "Age of Giants" display, where you'll find dinosaur skeletons cast from the real bones. You can ride the Evolator, a simulated time-travel experience that moves and rumbles, taking you 1 1/4 miles up and through 38 million years of history. Soon, you'll find yourself in the age of the mammoths and moving through the Ice Age. Other stops along the way include the Naturalist Center, where kids can peek through microscopes and make their own bear or raccoon footprints in sand, and FossilWorks, where paleontologists work behind glass, excavating bones of a seismosaurus. Be sure to check out the newest addition to the museum, the LodeStar Astronomy Center, a sophisticated planetarium with the Virtual Voyages Simulation theater. Those exhibits, as well as the DynaTheater, which surrounds you with images and sound, cost an additional fee. A gift shop on the ground floor sells imaginative nature games and other curios. This museum has good access for people with disabilities, including scripts for people with impaired hearing and exhibit text written in Braille.

New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
1801 Mountain Rd NW,
Albuquerque, NM 87104
Phone: (505) 841-2845
www.nmnaturalhistory.org/

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