Year of Memory: 1988-on
In 1988 with my daughter’s kindergarten class. Her teacher was Mrs. Kluge, whose husband was a professor at the museum. We got to go behind the scenes and see rows and rows of jars of frogs!
After that I spent many days at the museum with my children. Our favorite exhibits were the meteorite that hit a car in Ann Arbor and also the Native American millage dioramas – they were just the right height to look at as a little kid and you could make up stories about the people in the scenes.
Other favorites over the years have been the lecture series. (Like the Sex Life of Michigan Fish by the lady who did scuba diving in all the creeks and rivers. Mrs. Gleason on life in Antarctica, the Wright brothers, the passenger pigeon and OF COURSE the Bristle mammoth and the Siberia baby mammoth.) We loved all the behind the scenes days (all those drawers of birds and insects, the 3-D images of the baby mammoth, the Asian ceramics, the ID of your rocks and fossils…) We love all the special exhibits and programs and the opportunity to talk to the students and scientists involved.
Fun and life-long learning…
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