The following exhibit had some pictures of Siamese twins and some objects which came out of people's stomachs. Next one was a real 3.179 pound meteorite, found in China in 1958 and believed to fallen on earth in 1592. And there was also a computer-generated picture depicting the view of New York, if the meteorite had fallen there and the crater looked like a complete city could fit into it.
Picture of meteor hit New York city
There was also the original american flag taken to moon and a piece of rock from moon (wow!). The next was a life-size exhibit of Shark with its jaws wide open and they had even shown all the strange things inside its stomach which also consisted of two swimsuits (that's funny!).
A dinosaur skull and bones were also on display and then came the exciting part - a room with laser beams falling across and one had to make his way through the beams and go to the other end of the room without touching any laser beam. This was so much fun, as first my husband went in and we could see him in a t.v. outside, it looked just like movies and he was pretty good and touched only 4 beams. After him, it was my turn now, i did pretty well too- only 3 beams, yipee!!.
Dinosaur skeleton
Another interesting twist, we saw there was, there were two doors - one was for coward hearted and the other one a path through a rotating ball leading to the next exhibit. We took the one through the ball, and it was spinning all around and I felt like I was falling on one side. But we made it not just once but five times, it was so much fun.
From the ball, we were led into the the famous room with shrunken heads from Ecuador. This practice of shrinking heads was common amongst the Jivaro Indians of Ecuador, South America. So when an enemy was killed, his head was cut off, skin peeled away from the skull and hot stones,sand were poured into the cavity, then the head was sewn and boiled in herbs till it shrunk to the size of a fist. Then it was smoked over a fire to darken and harden it with feasts and ceremonies going on (Most outrageous of all!).
This visit was definitely the most unbelievable as the things we saw, we could have never imagined. It was a different experience all together.
A dinosaur skull and bones were also on display and then came the exciting part - a room with laser beams falling across and one had to make his way through the beams and go to the other end of the room without touching any laser beam. This was so much fun, as first my husband went in and we could see him in a t.v. outside, it looked just like movies and he was pretty good and touched only 4 beams. After him, it was my turn now, i did pretty well too- only 3 beams, yipee!!.
Another interesting twist, we saw there was, there were two doors - one was for coward hearted and the other one a path through a rotating ball leading to the next exhibit. We took the one through the ball, and it was spinning all around and I felt like I was falling on one side. But we made it not just once but five times, it was so much fun.
From the ball, we were led into the the famous room with shrunken heads from Ecuador. This practice of shrinking heads was common amongst the Jivaro Indians of Ecuador, South America. So when an enemy was killed, his head was cut off, skin peeled away from the skull and hot stones,sand were poured into the cavity, then the head was sewn and boiled in herbs till it shrunk to the size of a fist. Then it was smoked over a fire to darken and harden it with feasts and ceremonies going on (Most outrageous of all!).
This visit was definitely the most unbelievable as the things we saw, we could have never imagined. It was a different experience all together.