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Exploring the natural history of Minnesota at the Bell Museum

by Bryan Lor

Adventure Date: 02/20/2022

Most people around here knows about the Science Museum of Minnesota in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota.  It too provides exhibits on natural history and little bit about the natural history of Minnesota, but tucked away on the campus of the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities is the Bell Museum that offers equally comparable, if not better, quality exhibits that showcases a lot of the natural history of Minnesota along with numerous animal specimens from around the world.  You’ll learn all about the creatures that have come before us and are currently sharing this natural world with us by looking through multiple exhibits and world-renowned dioramas!

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Starting our history lesson with bones!

Skulls and various bones can be seen on display in one of the exhibit rooms that visitors can read more about.  In the same room, a small amount of fossils can be found that dinosaur fans would be excited to touch and chat about like our young nephew who we had brought along with us.  History usually starts with those who have come before us, so what better way than to study the bones?!?

Time for some art lessons in the gallery.

Inside the Bell Museum, there is a room that is specifically a gallery.  This gallery showed artwork of birds, but also provided lessons on the evolution of birds and the importance of birds to everyone.

Studying all things that fly, crawl, and walk through various displays and dioramas.

The more grand displays were of course the dioramas that the Bell Museum is famous for.  One of these displays being the mammoth exhibit.  Another favorite was the one depicting wolves in northern Minnesota.

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