A Night at Children's Natural History Museum

An evening event with "fossil" theme was organized by the Math Science Nucleus at the Children's Natural History Museum in Fremont today. Being a weekday with kids homework and tests, I was not sure if we should attend it. It had been my wish for a while to take my kids to this museum. So 30 minutes prior to the event start which was @ 7:00 p.m. I and A finally decided to go.

We reached there when the "The boy paleontologists" Phil Gordon and William Charles were narrating about their childhood associations with fossils and paleontology. Most of the exhibits including the astounding collection of Ice age fossils found in the Irvington district (aka Irvingtonian fossil), in the museum now, were possible due to the work of Wesley Gordan, Sr. They showed a fossil of mammoth foot part, it took Wes Gordon almost 412 hours to remove the rock deposit from that fossil!


The kids then got to do few activities like sorting out the current day animals from those during the dinosaur period and sorting similar fossils.

















We then set off to explore the museum and were very overwhelmed with the rock collections, the fossil collections, hall of star and nature collection. They also have activities in the museum for kids, like sorting minerals, sorting gems, find matching object. It would probably take 2-3 hours to cover all the exhibits and do the activities. We did not get to complete the fossil collection as it was time to leave. However we soon do expect to go back to this museum. It is a must visit especially for the awesome mineral and rock collection!







Their other nature collection: