But my passion for knowledge was rekindled when my dad and I took a trip to the world-class The Mind Museum last January 17th. My dad and I qualified for the last day of the museum's all-day pass promo, so now people who decide to drop by TMM will only be able to roam around for three hours. Anyway, I went through all five sections of the place (Atom, Life, Earth, Universe and Technology) and couldn’t help but feel like a little kid, marvelling at all the educational and interactive displays on such a wide variety of topics. I was able to walk up next to a gigantic replica of a T.Rex (his name is Stan), take a quiz about dominant and recessive alleles on a touch screen monitor (shoutout to Miss David, my Science teacher! I GOT A PERFECT 10 IN THE QUIZ!!!!) and see a live demonstration of how one can use alcohol to start a rainbow-colored fire.
Truth be told, there were quite a few stalls in the museum that tackled issues that weren’t really in my list of interests (such as the production of rice and the parts of a toilet??!!!). But it’s strange how the museum is able to make topics like these engrossing and inviting to people who could not have cared less about them. I found myself walking past every single display in the museum…twice.
Another memorable experience I’ve had roaming around The Mind Museum was going down a hallway, thinking it would lead to another set of museum displays, only to find myself entering the staff’s offices! A janitor looked at me funny, and I swear that for a second, he thought I was trying to break in his workplace. I then made a stupid remark that I thought this was the way to the comfort room, and walked away as fast as I could.
I bet most people my age wouldn’t even think about going to The Mind Museum for leisure purposes, and I can understand why—I’m a normal teenager too who likes to slack around and do nothing on weekends but eat Doritos and go on Internet marathons. But trust me when I say that The Mind Museum is definitely worth a day’s visit: I’ve not learned the usual lessons under my school’s science curriculum, per se, but have also come to realize how everything in the world is connected: how some things that I thought were better off not learning about, such as how the world rotates and which specific species of what animals have roamed the earth in the past, have made a massive impact on how we all came to be and get to live our lives the way we do today.
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I’ll be back soon with another special post, so stay tuned! All the love. x