What we liked:
- Cheap parking ($2.00 for four hours)
- Low traffic (Bangor, ME)
- Friendly people (we're finding that Maine is chock full of these)
- Clean facilities
- So much information that you can spend an entire day in each section - and the museum is three stories of awesome
- The restrooms are integrated into the building's design - e.g. - on the second story, the restrooms are the back of a big rig truck
- live animals (turtles, fish, lizards, spiders, and more - all native to Maine)
- integration of Maine history, geography, and industry alongside science and discovery
- Paleontology dig area - huge sand pit with real dino fossils for kids to find
- dress up stations (doctors, sailors, farmers...)
- hang gliding simulation
- human body crawl through
- puppet theatre
- a huge boat with shipping supplies, life jackets, navigation equipment, and more for kids to use and explore
- a stop action animation studio
I could go on. We liked it a LOT. I had fun too - and that's not always the case at these types of locations. I texted Michael about a hundred times telling him about the next cool thing as we moved through the building.
What we didn't like:
- having to leave
- a couple of exhibits were broken, and didn't look like they would be repaired any time soon
The photos (of course)!:
This is Maeryn's "beaver face". You could explore a beaver dam, go fishing with magnetic fish, and crawl up a tree and into the nest of a bird in this area of the museum. |
Paper making - logging is one of Maine's largest industries. |
Restaurant exploration - Jonah spent a long time at this area organizing and setting up restaurant service for himself and his sister. |
Wish I would have taken more!
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