The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History has the bones of a blue whale at its entrance, a Tyrannosaurus Rex that roars at you just inside its doors, a small creek bed and a Butterfly Pavilion out its backdoors. Just 96 years old, the musuem boosts more than 3 million artifacts and specimens in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, vertebrate and invertebrate biology, geology and paleontology, art, library, and archives in its eight permanent halls, two changing exhibit halls and five outdoor areas. Alex climbed the rocks along the creek bed and Serene squeeled the butterflies were "Awesome!" That's four thumbs up from my little ones.
