This Thursday we have been in the Geomining Museum of Madrid. We have made the visit with a group of children of the Epysteme Association and it has been a very fun and interesting outing.
I thought that the little ones would not enjoy, but once again, I fell short evaluating the abilities of the children. Among the attendees there were quite a few children of four and five years, as you can see in the photo, and they enjoyed it as much as I, my son or our teenage friends.
As I say, it is a visit that, with a little preparation on your part, can be a wonderful experience that introduces children to the mysteries of the Earth, its past and its formation. And it is that the curiosity of the little ones is enormous, it is only necessary to feed it.
The entrance to Geominero Museum It is free and the truth is that it was almost empty, because besides us there was only one group of students from an institute and some adults. The building where the collection is located is already gorgeous. Several open terraces in a closed courtyard and beautiful colored windows make the room especially conducive to concentration and enjoyment.
We saw fossils of all kinds, precious dioramas about prehistoric life and minerals of all kinds. The fossils, ordered by epochs, were what most caught my attention to the little ones, who assaulted me with questions. Fossilized trunks, plants, trilobites, reproductions of mammoth exaggerations, or the skull of a tyrannosaur ecstatic.
Although undoubtedly the star of the visit were the hominid skulls. Seeing them next to each other, comparing their different forms, touching their heads discovering that homo sapiens have no supraciliary arches, nor prognathism, nor flat skull was an adventure.
I recommend this visit to the Geominero Museum and I assure you that the children, from the age of four, are going to have an exciting time and they will ask you many questions, so that without a doubt the elders will also have to learn a lot.
