点评:this is a great little museum on the campus of Amherst College. it's not very big but it is packed full of great stuff and really well organized. the staff there appeared to mostly be kids who (I assume) attended the college and were very eager to answer any questions.
the collection spans the literal ages from very early fossils up through the Ice Age and a display of hominid skulls. my daughter is homeschooled and we've been studying evolution so it was great to see so many of the things we've read about. there was also an entire room of large fossil trackways which was pretty cool.
most museums we have gone to have various resources online you can print out and bring with you to the museum. often it is geared towards school field trips but literally anyone who wants to can use them. what really impressed me about this museum is the age range they had print outs for. often it's for really young kids and is basically a scavenger hunt. this had stuff for young kids all the way up through college. i printed out more than we ended up being able to do on one trip.
the one down side for this museum is i dont think there was parking. there was definitely nothing obvious near by. since it's on a college campus there were small areas of parking here and there, a lot of it was labeled as reserved for various college type vehicles and the rest were all taken because school was back in session. we had to park in the south lot which was a 7-10 minute walk away. it's possible i missed something closer but it was not obvious.
this was a great museum. we drove from central MA to go to it so not sure when we'll be back but if we lived closer we'd definitely be regulars.
翻译:这是阿默斯特学院校园里一个很棒的小博物馆。虽然规模不大,但里面陈列着大量珍贵的展品,且陈列布局十分井然有序。工作人员似乎大多是该校的学生,他们热情十足,乐于解答各种问题。
馆内的藏品涵盖了从远古化石到冰河时代时期的各类物品,还有一系列人类祖先的头骨标本。我的女儿在家接受教育,我们最近一直在学习进化论,因此能看到这么多我们在书中读到的内容真是太棒了。还有一个整个展厅都陈列着大型化石足迹,相当酷炫。
我们去过的大多数博物馆都提供了各种可在线打印的资源,方便游客带到博物馆使用。这些资源通常是为学校组织的参观活动准备的,但实际上任何人都可以使用。不过真正让我对这家博物馆印象深刻的是它提供的打印资料所覆盖的年龄段范围之广。通常这类活动是针对年龄很小的孩子设计的,本质上就是一种寻宝游戏。而这次的活动内容则涵盖了从幼儿到大学生的各个年龄段。我打印出来的材料比我们一次出行所能完成的活动量还要多。
这个博物馆的一个缺点就是我觉得那里没有停车场。附近也明显找不到任何停车的地方。由于它位于大学校园内,所以各处有一些小块的停车区域。很多车位都标有“仅限各类大学用车使用”,剩下的车位则因为开学了全被占光了。我们只好把车停在南边的停车场,那里离入口有7到10分钟的步行距离。有可能有更近的车位我没注意到,但实在不太显眼。
这是一座很棒的博物馆。我们从马萨诸塞州中部开车过去参观的,暂时不确定什么时候能再去,不过要是住得近一些,我们肯定会经常来的。