Goal #10: Visit Three Museums (2/3)



Bean Museum

No, this is not the world's largest museum of exotic legumes, jumping and otherwise. The Monte L. Bean Life Museum is a natural history museum on BYU's campus. I vaguely remember going there once or twice when I was young, but all I can remember from those visits is the smell of taxidermied animals. It's been remodeled since then and it's a pretty neat little museum, housing a variety of plants, bugs, and animals. And a tree house slide, where the girls spent most of our visit. They were lucky and I was brave because I didn't even bring the stroller and I let them both run around to their hearts' content (and probably to the other visitors' discontent). We love wildlife and the girls get a lot of exposure to it through books, zoos, BBC series, and actual nature. So the Bean Museum is a great way for them to be up close without getting mauled.





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