Bean Museum

I finally got around to seeing the new Monte L Bean museum at BYU. I like what they've done but there are not half as many stuffed animals to see as there used to be.

Here the kids were petting a stuffed (taxidermied) penguin that was being shown. They also got to touch a tiger head, hippo tusks, various skins, and porcupine quills.

My favorite was the insect display, that butterfly is made up of hundreds of smaller butterflies - even the antennae!

At the end of our visit they had a live animal program teaching us about the diversity of Utah. It was great for Anna, the others were less enthused. But they had a live box turtle, a snake and a tarantula! And Anna touched them all. List of lifelong dreams, you are now half as long.