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The Miami Museum of Science and Space Transit Planetarium has made exploring science a fun activity, by delicately and creatively embossing museum fun with scientific projects and demonstrations. Older children in their early or late teens desperately need a reawakening today to embrace science as the driving force that will firmly root America in the information age and beyond. The efforts directed towards this noble mandate have received a boost through the Miami Museum of Science.
The Miami Science Museum is sometimes called the Miami Science Museum and Space Transit Planetarium, since the museum incorporates a state-of-the-art Space-Transit Planetarium besides a Weintraub Observatory. The majestic museum that stands so impressive today has gradually grown in stature primarily due to popularity. Actually, the Museum started out as ‘The Junior Museum of Miami’, which was a private non-profit making organization. Then it used to be inside a house at the junction of Biscayne Boulevard and 26th Street Miami.
 Miami Museum of Science Its popularity grew phenomenally and in 1952 the museum was relocated to Miami Women’s Club building located at Bayshore Drive. It was at this new location that the museum was renamed to the ‘Museum of Science and Natural History’. In 1953, a Guild of the Miami Museum of Science began to complement efforts of the volunteer assistance to the employed staff conducting
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Canned meat, Spam, is a part of the American heritage. It was the main food during the Second World War and during the tough years of the Depression. The Spam Museum is actually an innovatively renovated K-Mart building. The original K-Mart structure has however been completely run over by Spam renovations. What remains of the K-Mart building is but a shell whose windows, walls, doors, ceilings and the exterior designs have been totally overhauled to form the modern day Spam Museum.
How the museum came to be is a story as amusing as the museum itself. Innovation is the best way to describe this museum. K-Mart had vacated the building located at Main Street, Austin, a decade or so ago. After remaining idle for all those years the location lost value since with the exit of K-Mart slow business resulted. In fact, even a grocery store once thriving across the street also moved shop and left an empty huge box lying idle.
 Spam Museum Mr. Hormel came in with an idea of how the area could be turned around positively. At that time, Hormel’s offices were just half a mile away from the abandoned K-Mart. For one, it was a prime location in Austin and had space for expansion. The price was cheap and the space available. This conveniently located site became the Spam Museum and it opened in September 2001. Besides innovativeness, cost efficiency was a determining factor in choosing to renovate the K-Mart building rather than build it from the ground. Renovating the big box was by
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Dinosaurs are essentially huge creatures that roamed the earth millions of years ago, according to the studies and research carried out by anthropologists and other scientists. The fact is, the mystery surrounding the dinosaur history is one of complete ignorance and misinformation. The current mass media forms have further perpetuated this misinformation with crafty productions that depict dinosaurs in a totally imperfect representation.
So how do you quench your curiosity about dinosaurs? The answer is dinosaur museums. You can have fun at dinosaur museums while you sample the pieces of credible history, collected from anthropological excursions and then reconstructed artistically to recreate the huge creatures. In dinosaur museums, you hitch a time machine to thousands of years before you were born, objectively piecing together the evidence that tells the dinosaur story without misinformation.
 Dinosaur Museums For instance, you can visit the British award-winning Dinosaur Museum at Dorset, Dorchester, just 7 miles away from the world famous Jurassic Coast. For twenty-five years, the Dinosaur Museum has presented the Dinosaur story with a novel and innovative approach such that the museum has become a leading British attraction site for people interested in dinosaurs. When it comes to museum fun, there is nothing that beats standing alongside life-sized dinosaur reconstructions, gazing at dinosaur fossils and skeletons. These recreations and tangible evidence have been incorporated in multimedia displays of the
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Did you know that Connecticut has a green movement achievement braced in museum fun? The three major Connecticut cities send their collected trash to Hartford’s Trash Museum. This trash is used to generate green energy. For instance, last year (2008), Hartford’s Trash Museum plant and the other three plants under CRRT generated over 1.9 billion kilowatt hours of Class II green power. The Hartford Trash Museum is located in Connecticut, at 211 Murphy Road. The Hartford’s Trash Museum is a project of the Connecticut Resource Recovery Authority. This initiative, like very few of the fun museums in the world today, is a very relevant enterprise, going by the contemporary global environment trend of conservation.
Today, the world is plagued by the effects of environmental pollution to the extent that nations are now converging to seek the way forward. The only way we can save the planet for the future generations is by adopting great recycling initiatives that reduce pollution in our environment. Museums have been a major attraction all over the world for many decades now. Among the most prolific fun museums, Hartford’s Trash Museum has become another of the destinations you should include in your must-see list.
 Hartford Trash Museum What’s on display then, you may ask. The museum has trash sculptures set up in distinct areas and a four-foot lighthouse that has been made from pure trash Gatorade aluminum cans and bubble wrap. The amazing Colt Building is also a masterpiece that has been cobbled from junk to resemble the real Colt Building. There are just so many other great trash innovations to see here. The Hartford’s Trash Museum is a display front for the
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