Indiana Jones!

We had the pleasure of visiting the Discovery Science Center's Indiana Jones Exhibit, and this is extra special for us as we've been studying ancient history and archeology this year.

We got the best parking spot there!

Inside, the exhibit came with individual headphones and touch screen players.  They were amazingly user friendly and have movie clips, historical information, and fun facts.

Here's Jason watching a clip about the Ark (you don't have to hold it up, he just is :)

The players were also used in a scavenger hunt.  There were clues and then puzzles to solve. 

Here Andrew is putting his player in the correct window to earn a piece of the puzzle.

Then at the end, you get your prize and name displayed on the wall :) 

There were movie artifacts...

costumes...

And movie clips and information for each of the four Indy films...

There was also a connection between the stories and the actual history of archeology.

We were excited to find one room had an entire wall of Cuneiform writing.

When studying the Sumerians we made cookies with this writing!  See Here :)

I strongly recommend this exhibit if you're in town before April.

With any luck you'll make it out alive...barely!

PS When we started this exhibit, the kids did not know Indiana Jones so we told them, he's Han Solo.  That got them interested in learning more, and then in the middle of the exhibit I learned that there are hints of Star Wars in the Indiana movies from their Lucasfilm connection (e.g. a restaurant named ObiWan).  Interesting, huh :)