West Hartford, CT: Jurassic Treehouse at Children's Museum

From West Hartford News: Jurassic Treehouse at Children's Museum
West Hartford, — From the opening of Dinosaurs Alive—Jurassic Treehouse, to special programs that are anything but ordinary, there’s something for everyone at The Children’s Museum over the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Weekend. The Children’s Museum is located at 950 Trout Brook Drive, West Hartford.

Saturday brings the opening of a new pre-historic experience: Dinosaurs Alive—Jurassic Treehouse. An immersive experience awaits children and parents alike as they walk through dramatic multimedia scenarios featuring animatronic dinosaur families of various species including Stegosaurus, T-Rex, Parasaurolophus and Apatosaurus. Children get a Pterodactyl’s eye view of these prehistoric families as they make their way through the Jurassic Treehouse overlooking the dinosaurs. The exhibit will run through the end of May and is included in general admission.

How did technology look in the past? Remember rotary phones and ham radios? Old School Sunday on January 15 is the latest offering in The Children’s Museum’s Family Science Sunday series. Among the fun demonstrations and activities, visitors can

• Check out 19th century gadgets from The Mark Twain House and artifacts from the CT Historical Society and Noah Webster House;

• Experience colonial era education with Old Sturbridge Village;

• Play with retro toys from the Noah Webster House;

• Examine old school technology: rotary phones, phonographs, the stomach churning history of airplane travel and more; and

• See what used to be the cutting edge of video games and movie special effects.