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Review:
The Middle Tennessee Museum of Natural History, named Earth Experience, is the first museum of natural history in Middle Tennessee. The museum’s focus is Tennessee, but it also has a large number of items from all over the world. The museum has far more items than it can display in its space and holds fossils, minerals, gems, rocks, and archeological relics. There are two rooms with minerals, two for fossils and rocks, while meteorites are displayed in the main central space. In the back room is the museum’s most popular exhibit – a 38-foot long male T. rex dinosaur that is almost as high as the room, composed of over 300 bones dug up over time. T. rex lived in the Cretaceous Period – 66 to 68 million years ago. Many of the museum’s exhibits come from the private collection of Lewis Elrod, a mineral, gem, and fossil hunter.
816 Old Salem Rd, Murfreesboro, TN 37129, Phone: 615-900-8358
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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