Indiana State Museum

With soccer season quickly approaching and weekends about to be booked with soccer for the next 2-3 months, we decided to take a day trip to the Indiana State Museum, located in Indianapolis, IN.  We've never visited this museum before and I'll start by saying it's a very good history museum I highly recommend you visit if in the area.

Inside the Indiana State Museum.

As with any museum, there were several galleries to view.  Unfortunately the dinosaur gallery was being renovated at the time.  This bummed out my 7 year old a bit, but she still had a lot of fun viewing the other exhibits.  My 11 year old's favorite exhibit was in one of the rotating galleries.  We made it in time before the Poison and Venom exhibit left.

The Poison and Venom exhibit.

She had a great time in this exhibit.  In fact, we probably spent more time viewing this exhibit than any of the other exhibits.  I figured we'd spend 2-3 hours in the museum, but it was a full four hours before we left and that's with us moving quickly through one of the final exhibits because we were all getting hungry.  In addition, a couple of exhibits were closed as they were updating for a new exhibit to open soon.  

Inside the Indiana State Museum.

Again, I encourage you to make a visit to this museum.  It's well worth the visit and we had a great time on a Sunday afternoon before soccer season fills our schedule.