by On a hot New Mexican Saturday, what better way to spend the day than by visiting one of Albuquerque’s top museums? The New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science is devoted to the state’s natural history, including its rich fossil record spanning some 500 million years.
Conserving America’s Wildlands: The Vision of Ted Turner was an exhibit of photographs by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and acclaimed photographer Rhett Turner, son of media mogul and conservationist Ted Turner.
The photographs were an amazing assortment of images from Turner’s vast land holdings in the American west.
The Sci-Fi & Sci-Fact exhibit explores the ways that science fiction and scientific fact overlap and help create our modern world. It had artifacts from popular culture and films such as Galaxy Quest and Star Wars, devices like mobile phones and tablets, and books like Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward.
Of course, the museum had fossils! Fishes, amphibians, reptiles (turtles, dinosaurs, and birds) and mammals were all included.
