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| Gondwana Praehistorium |
About an hour or so from our house is a dinosaur museum called Gondwana Das Praehistorium. Colin is super into dinosaurs so we've been waiting to take him here and see what it's all about. It was a great day to go because it was a week day in the summer (no school field trips) and it was a nice day outside (so no one wanted to be inside) so we basically had the place to ourselves! Colin was about to bust just walking in the doors and seeing the huge life sized skeleton of some brontosaurus looking dinosaur. Once you pay admission you sit in a round theater and watch a movie projected on the ceiling about how the Earth was created (apparently they favor the Big Bang Theory at this museum) and life evolved. I was concerned Colin wouldn't be too interested in this but he actually sat on Shelby's lap and watched the whole thing without so much as a peep.
After the movie they set you off to the museum where you wander and read about how the dinosaurs came to be and their evolution. There are lots of pictures and models and hands on things the kids can touch and manipulate to keep them interested. You also get a little audio handset to explain details at each stop in the museum. Colin had a great time cleaning up a puzzle that some other kids had put together and left behind completed. He much prefers tearing puzzles apart anyway. When that was done it took Shelby, Grandpa and Colin to figure out how to build some giant prehistoric sea creature. The rooms there are done very life like and realistic. If the scene is supposed to be hot and humid, so is the room. One room was freezing and it looked like snow and ice on all the scenery. The dinosaurs are all animated and very real looking. Colin got scared a couple of times when the angry ones would roar and growl. In one room a huge flash flood comes raging down a rock wall every 5 minutes or so, it was awesome! Colin was hilarious because he wanted to go in and see the dinosaurs, but if he got in a room where the dinosaur was scary he would grab hold of Shelby's head (he was riding on Shel's shoulders) and push hard to turn it back towards where they came in and scream "that way, that way!" Once Shelby would get halfway into the room or so Colin would start yelling "go! go! go!" to get him to move on to the next room and leave the scary one behind. He got scared a couple times but he still loves dinosaurs. He picked out a set of 3 from the gift shop to play with and still gets excited if he sees a dinosaur on TV, on his clothes or somewhere else.
Here is video of the T-Rex. You can see how nice the exhibits are and you can hear Colin saying "wow-wee" in the back and then the T-Rex roars and Colin starts crying, lol.
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