Jurassic Park

[cornerofmadness]

Pittsburgh has a very nice museum with some of the best dinosaur displays anywhere (back in the 1880's Mr Carneige forged his pipeline to the West were most of the bones come frmo in the states). They just redid the exhibit so the parents and I went. Sadly it was NOT done on time so T-Rex is missing but I did get plenty of others.

raptor-types

a pair of apatosauruses

allosaurus, T-Rex’s little cousin

Stegosaurus one of my faves

archopteryx

dinsosaur overlook

the evolution of horses

Also hit the Egyptian exhibit, the Polar exhibit and the Native American exhibit.
mummies

And spent a lot of time in the gem and mineral exhibit. Dad used to know the curator there back in the 70's & 80's. I love rocks. no, really. I don't like geology per se but i like looking at and working with rock.

Hey Indy, I beat you to it

We also hit the life on Mars exhibit. We THOUGHT it would be some scientific thing. instead it was an art exhibit depicting 'life on mars' and/or the alienation of man. It was like uh....okay, don't get it.

such is life.

Comments

[artemis2050.livejournal.com]

I love the Carnegie Museum! I grew up going there!!

You know...that used to be a big BLACK building...until they started sandblasting it during Renaissance II when I was in college. Turns out it was a big TAN building all along. O.o

The place looks great! (The History of Horses, that hasn't changed. *g*)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I remember that. I also grew up going to the Carnegie. (I grew up out by the pittsburgh STar Lake AMpitheatre)

Nope that history of the horses is the same as it was in 1974

[artemis2050.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that!

Bethel Park girl, me. :-D

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yep definitely know where that's at. Grew up in Bulger myself.

[mulzrule.livejournal.com]

HEE to the horses. I just love museums, but I have this irrational fear of dinosaurs. No clue why. But the skeletons are cool....in pictures. I'd love to check out the mummies.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

blink. that is REALLY irrational. I think you might win with that one. They are so dead it's not funny

[mulzrule.livejournal.com]

I seriously don't know why. I even hate the sweet vegetarian ones. I'm so thankful they're gone. *sweatdrop* I have no idea how I can watch the recent King Kong over and over.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

snort

[hierath.livejournal.com]

Cool stuff!

What does it say under the Crystal Skull? I've just read a book about them (doing my Indy homework!), and I wonderedif it was one of the ones mentioned in the book.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I forgot what it said but i know it was carved in Germany

[hierath.livejournal.com]

That makes sense, there's apparently a town in Germany where they specialise in crystal carving, and a lot of the "genuine mesoamerican" crystal skulls in museums actually came from there :)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i have no doubt of that

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Yay, dinosaurs! Yay! I wanna go lookit dinosaurs.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

you'd like the gems too

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

You know it. I found two (two!) boxes of just...minerals this week.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

cool

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Yeah, one's full of stones from a lapidariest? (How would that be said?)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i guess

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Anyway, semi-precious stones, ahoy.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

the icon is killing me

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

ahahahahah. I hadda have it.

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

Oooooooooooooooooooooooo, COOL!! I bet that was fun.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it's always fun there