The Morian Hall of Paleontology at the Houston Museum of Natural Science is one of the largest paleontology halls in the United States and certainly has a lot to offer. One of the best attributes of the exhibit is the way the dinosaurs are displayed in a very life-like way. The predators are posed in the moment just before they take down their prey, and pterodactyls hang from the ceiling in mid-flight.
The lighting of the exhibit as well is very cool and dark with lights shining from below to cast shadows of the dinosaur bones onto the walls to tell their own story. The exhibit takes you through the story of the dinosaurs, displaying prehistoric beasts of all kinds in different habitats with loads of information about every item in easily accessible places as you walk through. You can even see what bugs back then were like and be thankful that the biggest pests we deal with now are probably cockroaches. Just like in the movies, you can look at mosquitoes and other bugs stuck in tree sap, preserved forever.
The aspect of the dinosaur exhibit that truly makes it an interactive experience is that it allows you to stand right next to the bones, giving you an accurate understanding of just how big the dinosaurs really were. The wonder and awe that you experience walking past a T-Rex is something that you just can’t get while reading about it in a book or watching it on a TV show.
