Outside Class-room activity - Science Museum!

Museum of Natural Sciences in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina! 

I went with my fiancé to this museum for my outside class room activity. Although it was a "natural science" museum it was still pretty interesting! I'm more of the super science things vs. the natural but I had a lot of fun. 

It is the oldest established museum in North Carolina and also the largest in the southeast. They have programs and also even class rooms to learn about specific things. They cover anything from NASA, to astronomy, to human body parts, and to animals. They cover all aspects of natural science and the best part is, is that it is all for free. 

Inside the museum, there is a bridge that connects another building to it, and that is where the actual labs and testing are done. There is a huge part of the building dedicated to the study of DNA alone. While my fiancé and I were there, people were actually working in the labs. It was great to see scientist actually work while also looking about the museum they helped create. 

The museum has over 3 million different specimens for viewing, and also for research. They display rooms that view anything from DNA, to birds, mammals, geology, fishes, reptiles, astronomy, invertebrates, and paleontology (dinosaurs!) 

It's a great museum to visit to learn more about natural science and to get a great view on environmental awareness as well.