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A Trip To The Peabody Museum

Posted by Josh on March 8, 2012 in Event |

Last week, my family and I went on a trip to Boston, Massachusetts.  We went to Harvard.  After finally finding parking and eating lunch, we headed to the Peabody museum.  On the outside, it didn’t look very big, but it definitely was inside.

On the first floor, there was a section on how kids in Colombia were taught how to make pinhole cameras and then develop the pictures that they took.  The next room had a big Indian totem pole and quite a lot of Indian drawings.  There were even more Indian antiques in the next section and four more totem poles!  There was also many other Indian antiques, like bows and arrows of all sizes, pots, bags, clothes, little replicas of a real village for the different type of Indians, and purses, and all had been given to the museum.  One of the totem poles in the previous room was carved out of cedar wood given to the museum as a present from the Indians for returning one of their old totem poles that had been in the museum.  I thought it was amazing how the carver did the smallest details on the totem pole!

On the third floor, which we rode up to in an old fashion elevator, there was a room full of stone totem poles of the Aztec and Inca, and small, but cool, little replicas of these Indians buildings.  Another section showed other models of houses which these Indians used to live in.  On the same floor, there was also a Natural History Museum.  The first room was breath-taking.  They had a big room, full of every mineral, (in every size, shape, and color) you could ever imagine!!  There was even a mineral that was cut in half, it had tons of tiny purple minerals inside it, and I believe it weighed around (I think above) 1000 pounds!  Amazing!  However, the rooms after were twice as cool!

The rooms from then on were filled with every kind of animal you could think of; butterflies, insects, and birds.  There even was room filled with Dinosaur bones and fossils and skeletons, and my favorite was a 45-foot long skeleton of a Sea Rex!  The next two rooms were full of all the animals in the world probably, and there was a balcony where they had almost every kind of bird in the world, and had a skeleton of a whale and two other prehistoric creatures (they probably need another museum for storage)!  Even though we didn’t get to see the 4th floor, we had an awesome time, and it is my favorite museum ever!!!

 

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  • Connie says:

    This sounds excellent also. It is amazing to see some of the things they used to do. I’m so happy you saw all this. It’s just to bad the parking was better.

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