MAYBORN MUSEUM - WACO

Heidy-Ho, Blogging Buddies!!

As always (this is becoming quite the habit, isn't it?), I apologize for the delay between posts.  Things have been happening and I have a lot of pics and things to share... so you may be inundated for a few days!

Okay.  Let's start with an interesting trip to the Mayborn Museum here in Waco.  Had not been previously but my BF and her granddaughter had.  They came up to Waco from Austin/Georgetown for a day and we headed to the museum which the granddaughter absolutely loved!  I could see why.  Lots of interesting things to see plus a lot of electronic "quizzes" for kids to do in several of the rooms.

So... mostly photos with a few comments.  I wish you could actually get the perspective regarding size of a couple of the items.  Tried to get people in a few photos in order to help with that!

We made it!!  Front of museum.

First room we entered had a lot of fossils.

Mastodon skull and tusks.

Ostrich-like ancient bird skeleton.

Humpback whale skull with an 8-year old for scale!!!

Sorry.  Didn't get the names of everything I saw!  This was hanging from the ceiling and is clearly a water animal chasing dinner!

Fossil of a substantial turtle!!  Full-grown adult for scale.

Switching gears...

Very interesting room full of cave items and creatures (not alive!).  Definitely a fun place.

An "early Texas" room with information on the areas covered by Texas.

More of "early Texas" with one of the electronic items for the kids in the center (grey).

Early Plains of Texas with Native American shelter and bison.

Early Plains of Texas with Settler shelter.

There were TONS of other things to photograph but it was just so much fun wandering around and looking... well, I missed some shots.  So sue me!  LOL!

At any rate, if you have opportunities to go to museums, especially those with a diverse collection of items, GO!  Take the young'uns.  Show them things they will never see elsewhere.

Until next post...