Sunday, May 22, 2016

University Museum

This site was another one of my favorite museums. I especially loved the floor that had all the different categories inside the room  such as the teeth room, the reproduction room, the heart room and more.  One interesting thing that I found  in the cartilage and bone room  was that there is an 1880 lungfish that can breathe outside of the water because it has two lungs, however it also has gills to breathe underwater. I also found the heart room very interesting where I found an instrument that they use to inject veins with plastic, so tissue could be removed.
 In a side room I found a mold of a skull that they use before advanced medical technology where they would make a mold of a patient's brain and then map on the mold where they are going to be doing the surgery, so they could have a physical representation of the persons brain and where they needed to go in to cut during surgery.
Also, I liked going outside to see the botanical garden and I really found it interesting when she talked about the tree with leaves that looked like white tissues. I was surprised when I asked her if the flower fell off with the white tissue part of the leaf  and she said that they did because I thought the white tissue part just protective the flower and then when the flowers was ready to bloom it would just fall off and then the flower would stay on the tree during its full bloom.

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  1. The ginkgo tree in the garden was really cool. It was over three hundred years old. However, there is a ginkgo tree in one of the gardens at the University of Madison that could give it a run for its money.

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    1. I did not know that that is awesome I'll have to go check it out

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  2. I really enjoyed the University museum as well! The botanical gardens were really pretty, especially since it was so nice outside. I thought the tissue tree was very interesting because it really did look like tissues!

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  3. The Univeristy museum has to be one of my favorite sites so far! I loved how interactive the museum was; especially the little baby sheep. The botanical garden was beautiful

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