Discovery Room Completed

2002 Capital Campaign

The 2002 Capital Campaign focused on the renovation of the Dinosaur Depot Museum's Discovery Room.  The Discovery Room was created by our volunteers and staff after the renovation of the Exhibit Hall.  The new Discovery Room created opportunities for our younger visitors to learn by touching and handling fossils, replicas of dinosaur bones, and other fun stuff.

The Discovery Room has been highly successful with our young visitors both in school groups and with families.  It was created with banquet tables and materials on hand and needed to be brought up to the standards of the Matthew Fisher Exhibit Hall.

Community response to our campaign has been wonderful and has allowed us to complete the renovation.

The Discovery Room is  developed around activity stations.  Each station, like the Ant Hill, has a short lesson and a series of questions designed to develop an understanding of that lesson. 

New technology has been blended with the old in the Discovery Room.  Here an electronic microscope has been married to a computer to reveal the world of microscopic fossils. 

Among the new features in the Dinosaur Discovery Room is a Dig Box where kids of all ages can experience the thrill of finding and exposing a dinosaur fossil. 

An overall view of the Discovery Room showing how it follows the theme of the Matthew Fisher Exhibit Hall. 

Some very happy visitors for Montgomery, Texas. 

As a final step, we have replaced the banquet tables and folding chairs with library-grade book cases, tables and chairs for the Children's Corner and the Library Area. 

 
Dinosaur Depot Museum
330 Royal Gorge Blvd. #A
Caņon City, CO 81212
Phone:(719) 269-7150 · Toll Free: (800) 987-6379 · Fax: (719) 269-7227


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