Super Cool Place Alert

Super Cool Place Alert | 98.1 FM Real Music Variety Madison, WI

One weekend not long ago my husband, Marc, took our four year-old, Everett, to the UW Geology Museum.Ā Yes . . . the Geology Museum!Ā Yesā€¦here in Madison!Ā Who knew?Ā Itā€™s by Camp Randall and itā€™s free!Ā 

The morning started out with Everett wanting to see a dinosaur egg.Ā Not sure how that popped into his brain . . . but it was there.Ā And as all good parents do, we started scouring the Internet looking for something that would appease his spontaneous interest in seeing a dinosaur egg.Ā And there it was . . . the UW Geology Museum! (The picture at the top of this post is borrowed from the museum website.)

Everett told me he wasnā€™t scared because, “Theyā€™re just fossils, Mom, not real dinosaurs.”Ā He was thrilled!Ā Theyā€™ve also got an area with a whole bunch of minerals and stones in it that, when lit with a black light, turns into a groovyĀ neon show.Ā Marc said the parking was a bit of a hassle, and youā€™ll want to avoid visiting on any sort of UW game day, of course.Ā But I highly recommend this amazingly cool place for you and your family.Ā There are tours available, but you can just go and walk around on your own.Ā If youā€™ve got a preschooler, they hold storytime at 10:30AM on the first and third Thursdays of each month.Ā Thereā€™s a book reading, hands-on specimens, and then a craft project that you get to take home.Ā 

“ROAR!”Ā  Thatā€™s dinosaur-speakĀ for “check this place out!”Ā 

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