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Show You and Your Child: Success in School by JIM CAMPBELL Utah Education Association President W 1 X 1 Curiosity may kill cats, but it sparks a lively desire to learn in children. Museums stimulate curiosity and satisfy it, too. And Utah has plenty of museums-good places for family visits. You can see a world puppet collection at the Pioneer Craft House, real farm animals at Wheeler Historic Farm, real antique anti-que farm equipment and methods at Logan's Man and His Bread Museum and dinosaurs at the Utah Museum of Natural History, or visit the quarry and museum in Vernal where life-size life-size models bring dinosaurs back to life. Hansen Planetarium displays meteorites and Apollo 15 moon rocks. Want to step into the days of 1854? Visit the Chase Home in Liberty Park and check out the pioneer furniture and relics, but don't go until it reopens May 1. In Provo the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum at Brigham Young University offers collections of birds, mammals, plants, insects, reptiles, fish and shells. The McCurdy Historical Doll Museum in Provo exhibits doll, toy and miniatures collections. Go to the Golden Spike National Historical Site near Brigham City, and you can examine collections collec-tions of steam locomotives and other transcontinental railroad objects. Ogden's Union Station is also a railroad museum with a vintage car exhibit. In Fillmore, the Territorial State House awaits your inspection during summer months. The Donner-Reed Donner-Reed Memorial Museum in Grantsville is another summer sto-poff. For archeology, geology, fossils and Indian artifacts, look over those at the College of Eastern Utah in Price. Curious? Call first for hours, information about collections, activities, tours and admission charges if any. |