This weekend, I went to the Franklin Institute, in Philadelphia. This institute is a museum of a variety of educational corners. Walking around, you can learn about the heart, brain, lungs, and blood. The heart exhibit is the coolest one because they have a walk-in heart which has stairs and descriptions of each part of the heart inside. You can watch volunteers perform dissections on hearts, and even eyeballs. Along with the internal body part exhibition, there is a huge area devoted to electricity and how it is conducted, etc. Walking to the electricity room, I stopped on a volunteer who was making paper. He asked a series of questions while making the paper, one which surprised me: “Do you know what they used to make paper out of?” Answer: Elephant dung. Wow. He let us make the paper ourselves too, and keep it afterwards. Now, the coolest part of the Institute was the Jurassic World tour. This was a thirty-minute tour through the Jurassic World, with dinosaurs that were mimicked so pin-point; the shape, size, color, and movement was too real. They had the one and only T-Rex come out at the end and knock over a bunch of cars, and make loud roaring noises. This was a memorable tour, on which I would love to go again. I really love how the Institute was scientific, and hands-on. The fact that they made the information more understandable by making it hands-on, boosts the level of interest and brain activity. They also have a “dome” like structure inside, which presents information about our Solar system, GPS, and the Moon, which projects this information on the dome around the audience, in the dark. It is impossible to go to the Franklin Institute and come out without having gained even a grain of knowledge. Outside the Institute is the statue of Rocky Balboa, a must see. To sum up this post, The Franklin Institute is a great museum to learn about a lot of new things, and get your hands on cool experiments as well. You will not want to leave, and will be wandering around room to room hoping you did not forget to see something. Very educational, and a place I recommend anyone to go to.