18 October 2024

Denver Nature and Science Museum

Besides exhibits on “The Power of Poison” and “Vasily Konovalenko: Gem Carvings of Russian Folk Life,” the Denver Nature and Science Museum had plenty to keep me occupied on a very hot July afternoon.

The museum featured dinosaur fossils, exhibits of Colorado and North American wildlife, and an extensive gems and minerals collection. It also has a wing devoted to Egyptian mummies, as well as Botswanan and South American wildfile.

Here are some of the highlights of my visit.

Fossils of sea creatures.
The now-extinct ivory-billed woodpecker.
The now-extinct Carolina parakeets.
Check out the tail on this diplodocus!
And more fossils.
Tom’s Baby, largest gold in Colorado, discovered in Breckenridge in 1887.
Quartz variety amethyst, one of the largest of its kind in the U.S.
A variety of bird eggs.
An exhibit on Africa had this specimen of a honey badger!
Egyptian mummy.
Crystallized leaf gold, the museum’s oldest exhibit, donated by John Campion in 1900.

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