This, largely hands-on, museum is mainly for kids but has many interesting and thought provoking exhibits for adults as well. It is located the the city’s Washington Park. It has lots of activities for kids as well as samples of petrified wood and facts about the forests and trees of the world. There was a smokejumper firefighting exhibit and a full scale logging machine with a harvester attachment which explains how trees are efficiently turned into logs. It is quite a place.
The wood quiz consisted of several large Kit-Kat candy bar-like blocks (or think large piano keys) of various woods which demonstrate the enormous difference in weight depending on what type of wood you were lifting. Identically sized blocks ranged in weight from 8.7 to 82.7 pounds.
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