Got an urge to time travel? Head over the the New Mexico Museum of Natural History in Albuquerque, New Mexico!

Located right near Albuquerque Old Town, the Natural History Museum offers a wide range of permanent exhibits to attract the young and the young at heart!

Here's a sampling of some of the things you can see every day, up close and personal:

• Jurassic Super Giants: It's Mortal Combat and then some when Saurophagnax takes on Seismosaurus!

• Age of Volcanoes-- watch out though; here you can experience what it's like right inside the volcano!

• T Rex attack-- shades of Jurassic Park! Those jaws and teeth are awe-inspiring!

• Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Check out Coelophysis, the New Mexico state fossil

• New Mexico's Seacoast-- Bet you didn't know we had one! But we did, and you can take the "Evolator" trhough the past, and step out into New Mexico's seacoast of 75 million years ago!

• New Mexico's Ice Age: go nose-to-nose with the mammoths that roamed the Land of Enchantment up until 10,000 years ago

Something more modern your style? The Museum's got that, too. For instance, other permanent exhibits include:

• Start Up: Albuquerque and the Personal Computer Revolution. Did you know that Albuquerque was the original home of Microsoft?  In fact, Albuquerque has been critical to the computer revolution. Visit and learn all the details!
• Making Tracks on Mars sports a full-scale model of the Mars Rover. Visitors can manipulate the Rover camera, and enjoy animations, interactives and visuals

There are also always new things to see at the Dynamax Theater. The current offering is "Grand Canyon Adventure." I'm told by my husband and his friend that it was fabulous. I was also told that I should be grateful I missed it--- they said the "you are there" effects are so excellent that I'd never have made it through without Dramamine! So there's your warning, if you tend to motion sickness!

There's also the Planetarium. The current Planetarium Schedule is:

Enchanted Skies: 11 am & 3 pm. The museum's website invites you to "Travel through the digital universe with state-of-the-art 3D immersive reality tools"
Dinosaur Prophecy: 12 pm and 2 pm. The museum's website suggests you "Visit dinosaur graveyards, study their bones, and reconstruct how these creatures lived and died to solve four famous cold cases from the age of the dinosaurs."
Earth's Wild Ride: 1 pm. Imagine what it would "be like to live on a lunar space colony in 2081 and not be able to go to Earth, the beautiful blue marble that shines outside your window," asks the web advertising for this event.

The Albuquerque Natural History Museum is just one more extra that you get automatically when you decide to make Albuquerque home!

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