Tellus Science Museum
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Former name | Weinman Mineral Museum |
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Established | 1 April 1974 |
Location | 100 Tellus Drive White, Georgia |
Coordinates | 34°14′32″N 84°46′15″W / 34.24216°N 84.77084°W |
Type | Science museum |
Key holdings |
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Collections | Minerals and fossils |
Collection size | 120,000 sq ft |
Director | Adam Wade |
Nearest parking | Large lots on site |
Website | Tellus Science Museum |
Tellus Science Museum is a natural history and science museum near Cartersville, Georgia, United States, with a facility of over 120,000 square feet.[1] It is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution. The museum is open daily from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM, closing only on major holidays. Entrance fees vary.[1] The museum holds multiple special events throughout the year, many revolving around the Bentley Planetarium and observatory facility.[1] The largest displays consist of a large fossil exhibit and mineral gallery.[1]
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Facility contents
[edit]- Weinman Mineral Gallery
- Fossil Gallery, with well-detailed casts of Mesozoic land and marine creatures
- Millar Science in Motion Gallery, exhibiting past and modern transportation displays
- Collins Family My Big Backyard, exhibiting hands-on experiments with light, sound, magnetism and electricity
- Bentley Planetarium
- Observatory, with a 20-inch Planewave reflecting telescope and a Coronado solar scope
- Theater
- Banquet halls
- The Vault, sub-gallery featuring local mineral, paleontological and archeological treasures
- The Crossroads Gallery, featuring recent to modern marvels
- 'West Virginia University Solar House, built by university students for the 2015 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon
History
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Tellus was founded as the Weinman Mineral Museum in 1983, which closed in 2007 and reopened as Tellus Science Museum in 2009.[2] The museum retains the original mineral displays in the Weinman Mineral Gallery.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Tellus Museum". TellusMuseum.org. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
- ^ "Weinman Mineral Museum". About North Georgia. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
- ^ Turner, Dorie (April 6, 2009). "Dig for dinosaurs at new Georgia science museum". USA Today. Retrieved August 21, 2016.
External links
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