I went with my friend and her two boys to the McWane Science Center in downtown Birmingham. This place was/is awesome! It's fun for kids and adults which makes it great for families. It's great for field trips too. A class of students was visiting when we were and they were loving it. Personally, I think science is so much more fun when it's hands-on, and McWane Science Center offers just that. It contains more than 9,000 square feet of interactive exhibits including: bubbles and digging for pretend dinosaur bones. There's a bunch of physics stuff too, but you can guess what the most popular exhibits were for the boys. :) McWane also has an aquarium and an IMAX theater. We didn't check out the IMAX, but the aquarium was really cool. The aquarium tanks were grouped by different geographic locations (e.g., all the fish you'd see in the Gulf of Mexico were in the same tank), and they had a tank for fish you'd find in Alabama waters. By the way, did you know bonnethead sharks are always moving and that they lay eggs every few hours, and if the egg isn't fertilized, it becomes a female shark? Lots of cool information to be learned at McWane! It was a lot of fun and I totally recommend it. I forgot to take pictures until we were about to leave, so I was only able to capture this:
It's cooler than it looks. I promise.
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