The Bluebird Patch

If have been hearing great things about the Tellus Museum and this past weekend we finally gave it a visit. The Tellus Museum is a 120,000 square foot museum featuring four main galleries: The Weinman Mineral Gallery, The Fossil Gallery, Science in Motion, and The Collins Family My Big Backyard. There' also a Solar Decathlon House that was designed and built by engineering and architectural faculty and students at Georgia Tech for an international competition.   The solar house has 39 solar panels, insulated polyurethane base, and a water capture and reclamation system. The house is designed to be self-sufficient and show how solar energy can be used to make homes energy efficient and "green."   Along with the solar panels, separate air conditioning and heating units allow residents to heat or cool only certain sections of the home. The Tellus Museum exhibits include an 80 foot-long Apatosaurus and a replica Wright flyer, along with ...

  Fernbank Museum Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids exhibit explores the science behind mythical creatures. When I first heard I was invited to a private preview of Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids exhibit, currently on view at the Fernbank Museum all I could think about was how a museum can make an exhibition that is not based on science. Much to my surprise, I was shocked to discover the real science behind this amazing exhibit. The exhibit theorizes the kraken may be based on sightings of the corpses of giant squids, which have been known to wash up on shores. Or that legends about giant men or giant birds might come from people finding fossils and trying to make sense of what kind of creature could have had such large bones. I was also fascinated to learn how the myth of the giant one-eye Cyclops was born or how Unicorns end up being mentioned on the bible. Mythic Creatures is divided into five sections: The Introduction welcomes visitors ...