Jaunted - Tag: Natural History Museums http://www.jaunted.com/ The Pop Culture Travel Guide en-us Copyright 2006 - SFO MEDIA 2012-02-11T16:52:46Z Jaunted Jaunted Jaunted http://www.jaunted.com/images/jauntedw.jpg http://www.jaunted.com/tag/Natural%20History%20Museums New York: American Museum of Natural History's New Exhibit Is Insane in the Brain http://www.jaunted.com/story/2010/11/19/12921/397

The American Museum of Natural History will try to get inside your head in its new "Brain: The Inside Story" exhibit, which opens November 20.

The exhibit includes 28 interactive and multimedia exhibits, brain-scan imaging and brain-teasing puzzles and games, but the gross highlight may be the three-pound preserved brain on display, which will make "Body Worlds" fans geek out.

One walk-through installation simulates an active brain. It uses 800 pounds of used cables to replicate the tangled forest of 100 billion interconnected neurons, or brain cells. The exhibit lets visitors experience the the nonstop communication that occurs in their noggins.]]> Jennifer Kester 2010-11-19T12:05:41-05:00 London: Coming Soon to the London Natural History Museum: Ozzy Osbourne’s Body http://www.jaunted.com/story/2010/6/17/113727/258

While London’s Natural History Museum offers exhibits on dinosaur fossils and the origins of life on the planet, the most interesting display on the evolution of humans may come when Ozzy Osbourne donates his body to the museum.

The 61-year-old rocker told the Sunday Times that he’s survived so much alcohol and drug abuse that he should offer up his body to science. "When I die, I should donate my body to the Natural History Museum," he says.]]> Jennifer Kester 2010-06-17T14:53:16-05:00 New Haven: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and Bighorn Rams: An Afternoon at New Haven's Peabody Museum http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/2/28/134955/949

We hadn't been out of the city in a while, so last Sunday we bundled up and headed to Grand Central, where we caught a Metro North train to New Haven, Connecticut. Arriving at around noon, we met our friends and proceeded directly to Yale University's Peabody Museum of Natural History, a mid-sized, hassle-free alternative to New York's gargantuan American Museum of Natural History. ]]> Victor Ozols 2009-02-28T13:49:55-05:00 41.3151110 -72.920852 Washington, DC: Natural History Travel: The Smithsonian's New Sant Ocean Hall http://www.jaunted.com/story/2008/9/23/213540/223

Move over giant blue whale at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC: You might just be getting replaced by a new, shiner version in DC. September 27 marks the opening of the new Sant Ocean Hall at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.]]> sedona 2008-09-24T09:48:32-05:00 Search Jaunted Search Jaunted string http://www.jaunted.com/search/