Museum of Natural Curiosity Plus Living Planet Aquarium
The Salt
Lake/Provo area has a new
museum attraction - the Museum of Natural Curiosity recently opened
at Thanksgiving
Point. It will provide hands-on learning opportunities for people
of all ages. KSL has this
article about the museum. Below are excerpts and a video clip.
"(There are)
five main exhibition galleries all about science and engineering and
art and creativity, really creating that curiosity in all of us,”
Thanksgiving Point CEO Mike Washburn said.
The five galleries
are Water Works, Rainforest, Kidopolis, the Discovery Garden and
Innovation Gallery.
“This Museum of
Natural Curiosity is going to spawn new entrepreneurship, people that
will become the new business people, the new Steve Jobs, the new Bill
Gates,” Gov. Gary Herbert said. “People will use this kind of
curiosity to invent new things, make our lives better.”
Living Planet Aquarium
Not far away, in Draper, the Loveland
Living Planet Aquarium also offers a fun learning environment. The
Deseret News has this
great feature about the aquarium and its offerings. Below are
excerpts.
(Brent) Andersen
walked away from a secure job on the California coast to return to
Utah to build a world-class aquarium in his home state. His vision
was finally realized 17 years later with the opening in Draper on
March 25.
The aquarium
reached 200,000 visitors on Day 36 and is on pace to reach the
million mark within a year. According to Andersen, it ranks fourth
among the nation’s aquariums in attendance. Part of this is
probably attributable to the newness of the aquarium, but the
aquarium also had long lines and sustained attendance when it was
temporarily housed in smaller facilities in downtown Salt Lake City
and in Sandy.
One of the
aquarium’s sea turtles came from a hospital in Florida, where it
recovered after being struck by a boat and then attacked by a shark.
Such injuries leave air trapped in the turtle’s shell, which means
it’s too buoyant to dive underwater and therefore can’t be
returned to the wild.
The penguins were
flown from Galveston to Utah on Continental Airlines because the
airline offers a temperature-controlled environment. The otter came
from Long Island in dog crates. The toucans were placed on seats in
the two rows of a Southwest Airlines jet. The sharks were trucked
from Albuquerque, California and Las Vegas.
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