“The Gold Exhibit” (Houston Museum of Natural Science)

Houston Museum of Natural Science
One Hermann Circle Drive, Houston, TX 77030

“Gold” Exhibit
http://gold.hmns.org/

Climbing upstairs from the Egyptian Exhibit, through the African Wildlife Exibit I entered a chamber with a guard. She asked me to power off my cell phone. No photography. Through the portal I entered the realm of Golden Sunshine – Case upon case of Gold. All types. All shades of golden Yellow. From Raw Nuggets to Gold Leaf, from Panning the Rivers to Sunken Vessels. From Egyptian artifacts to Elvis’ Gold phone. Gold Leaf covered room created from leafing of 1 coin. A pan for your own gold exhibit where attendees could pan for their own gold and take home whatever they find. It was intriguing to see some pieces I already saw in British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology. More intriguing was shipwreck gold I had the privelege of seeing behind-the-curtains before this exhibit when I worked at Florida Division of Historical Resources. Always wild to see treasures like that on tour. I enjoyed the exhibit.

Then downstairs into the Imax theater for a presentation of “Gold Fever” – a 3d presentation on Gold, production and hunting … very inspiring … made me want to go back to the Northwest and start hiking around looking for gold. I thought they did a good job on this exhibit.

Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5.

the Raven Myth – Gold Item from Vancouver Museum of Anthropology
(Press photo from Museum web site)