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Tellus Science Museum

Tellus Science Museum is a natural history and science museum near Cartersville, Georgia, United States, with a facility of over 120,000 square feet (11,000 m2). It is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution. The museum holds multiple special events throughout the year, many revolving around the Bentley Planetarium and observatory facility. The largest displays consist of a large fossil exhibit and mineral gallery.

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Tellus Science Museum
Tellus Science Museum exterior
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Former nameWeinman Mineral Museum
Established1 April 1974 (1974-04-01)
Location100 Tellus Drive
White, Georgia
Coordinates34°14′32″N 84°46′15″W / 34.24216°N 84.77084°W / 34.24216; -84.77084
TypeScience museum
Key holdings
  • Weinman Mineral Gallery
  • The Fossil Gallery
  • Science in Motion
  • Collins Family My Big Backyard
Collections
Minerals and fossils
Collection size
120,000 square feet (11,000 m2)
DirectorAdam Wade
ParkingLarge lots on site
WebsiteTellus Science Museum

Tellus Science Museum is a natural history and science museum near Cartersville, Georgia, United States, with a facility of over 120,000 square feet (11,000 m2).1 It is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution. The museum holds multiple special events throughout the year, many revolving around the Bentley Planetarium and observatory facility.1 The largest displays consist of a large fossil exhibit and mineral gallery.1

Brontosaurus skeleton in the main lobby source ↗

Facility contents

  • Weinman Mineral Gallery
  • Fossil Gallery, with well-detailed casts of Mesozoic land and marine creatures
  • Millar Science in Motion Gallery, exhibiting past and modern transportation displays
  • Collins Family My Big Backyard, exhibiting hands-on experiments with light, sound, magnetism and electricity
  • Bentley Planetarium
  • Observatory, with a 20-inch (51 cm) Planewave reflecting telescope and a Coronado solar scope
  • Theater
  • Banquet halls
  • The Vault, sub-gallery featuring local mineral, paleontological and archeological treasures
  • The Crossroads Gallery, featuring recent to modern marvels
  • West Virginia University Solar House, built by university students for the 2015 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon

History

Solar arrays at the museum source ↗

Tellus was founded as the Weinman Mineral Museum in 1983, which closed in 2007 and reopened as Tellus Science Museum in 2009.2 The museum retains the original mineral displays in the Weinman Mineral Gallery.3

References

References

  1. "Tellus Museum". TellusMuseum.org. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
  2. "Weinman Mineral Museum". About North Georgia. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  3. Turner, Dorie (April 6, 2009). "Dig for dinosaurs at new Georgia science museum". USA Today. Retrieved August 21, 2016.
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