museums

A Museum You Should Visit

The Morrison Museum of Natural History makes a good pair with a visit to Denver area Dinosaur Ridge.

August 2024, I visited the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas, for the first time since autumn of 2019. Previously, I was bowled over, this time I was disappointed.

If you’re in the Denver, CO, area, you really should head out to the western end of Alameda Boulevard, where you’ll find Dinosaur Ridge. You can see Apatosaurus footprints, and just possibly, the remains of Tyrannosaur Rex courtship rituals.

The Arizona Desert Museum, in the vicinity of Tucson, AZ is well worth a visit.

If you’re in or near Albuquerque, New Mexico, it’s worth your time to see Petroglyph National Monument.

If you’ve driven the long way across Kansas on I-70, there are two things that you’ve seen and wondered about.

First and foremost, Wheat Jesus on a billboard in Colby, Kansas. I have no insights, artistic, theological or sociological, on Wheat Jesus, or “Wheatus” as some folks know him.

There’s also the big beige dome on the south side of I-70 in Hays, Kansas. That’s the Sternberg Museum of Natural History. You really should take an hour or two to visit it. Well worth your time.

A Museum You Should Visit

Fossil Butte National Monument is about 20 miles from Kemmerer, Wyoming, and well worth a visit.

A museum and exhibit you should visit

Denver Museum of Nature and Science currently has an absolutely fascinating, traveling exhibit about Orcas.

A Museum You Should Visit

Less a museum and more a visit to a time and place in the distant past,

if you’re in the vicinity of Thermopolis WY you should make great efforts to get to Legend Rock Petroglyph Site.

If you’re ever near Rapid City, SD, you should visit the Reptile Gardens.