Our 88th entry in this blog is our trip to The Mind Museum in Taguig, Metro Manila.  This is our first time to visit this museum and we did have a fun time exploring the different exhibits.  This museum was opened on March 2012.  Both Ate Rei and Sai are not yet around. hehe 🙂 And here is our little Sai, so happy to see dinosaur displays outside the museum grounds.

As of 2012, according to Wiki, the museum has five main galleries. The galleries each had its own theme namely, atom, life, earth, universe and technology which are linked by features called “Nature’s Webways”. The atom, life, earth, and universe galleries are located on the ground floor, while the technology gallery are found on the first floor of the two story museum.  Here is ate Rei, wanting to eat the yummy chocolate, and Sai so busy to go up and down the melody stairs.

Here we are at the Atom Gallery: The Strange World of the Very Small.  “The Atom Gallery is the gallery with the most number of interactive exhibits. It contains the very elemental forces that are so familiar that we take them for granted like gravity and electromagnetism. It also presents the counterintuitive quantum world that resembles nothing in everyday experience, yet serves as the basis for much of the technology of today. ” –themindmuseum.org

Next is the Life Gallery: The Exuberant Varieties of Life.  “The Life Gallery showcases the exuberance of a living planet in all its forms. It features the various habitats and the astonishing number and variety of organisms that thrive on our planet.” –themindmuseum.org.  It is a wide area with a very big whale opening its mouth.  Get your head inside and say hello.  🙂

Next is the Earth Gallery: Nature Across the Breadth of Time.  “The Earth Gallery features the first permanent T.Rex exhibit in the country along with other unique exhibits that focus on the forces at work in shaping and reshaping the Earth.” –themindmuseum.org.  Our little Sai have seen TRex bones display in Japan and he is just as excited seeing this one as he always loves dinosaurs.

There is also a Universe Gallery: The Beginning and Majesty of the Cosmos.  “The Universe Gallery showcases humankind’s wondrous fascination with outer space. It features exhibits that show how all of life, as we know it, found its atomic beginnings in the stars. It enfolds visitors in the fundamental elements at play in the cosmos.” –themindmuseum.org.

Then lastly, the Technology Gallery: The Showcase of Human Ingenuity.  “The Technology Gallery is the largest of all the galleries. It is the only exhibition space on the second level, overlooking the other four galleries. This gallery presents technology not as a mere tool, gadget or industrial advancement but as means to flesh out human values and to help us become better humans.”  –themindmuseum.org.

That was our almost 3 hours of exploring the mind museum.  We hope to have more museums like these in the future and in Cebu  as well.  Until next time Mind Museum! 🙂