Korea's National Museum of Sciences (part 5)

The Entrance hall

It was time to visit the Expo Park. (although, later on we found out that we could not explore it at all:)

dangerous tube:)

for the sake of...

On the way to the Park, we had to walk across a parking lot where some interesting things were visible enough. One thing that stroke most of us were the huge cucumber or pumpkin being planted on the roof of a long tube connecting the museum and the parking lot.
Since they were so big, I felt kinda scared to go underneath it, well...for a simple reason of getting hit by a falling pumpkin:)
Guess, it'd been thought of, though. Extra protection to hold those huge plants from falling were in place intact.

Korea's National Museum of Sciences (part 4)

Another section worth-taking picture with:)
It was simply a globe actually.
Nothing more than that. It simply caught our attention so as to have another angle to capture.
Actually, we were a bit exhausted of exploring the museum.

So, to take the time off for a while before exploring other sections (still lots to do), we sat down and took the picture.

Another pic shows a replica of NASA air space ship. Not that impressive, but hey.it was the fun part of taking picture that kept us glued on keep searching what to see next...inside the museum:)
For sure, it was fun.
I felt like a kid, though:)

Korea's National Museum of Sciences (part 3)

Since all groups were like exploring in their own sections of interest, we were finally split up into small groups. As what we did, Elmira, Maya, Adgerim, Wawan, Rois, and me were busy patrolling each section attentively. Some were quite interesting, some were just not too worthy to look at. So, we might as well go to each section and take some pictures. That's exactly what we did. We found the section where we could take the whole section of the museum as the background. As for me, the idea of while-being-here-why-not-do-this attitude set in, so....one of the results....was me at the front seat of a car being displayed.

Korea's National Museum of Sciences (part 2)

Off I went to another section of the museum.
The museum did offer lots of interesting things.
I would not have found this interesting at all...would not bother taking pictures as token of memories, had it not been attractive.
I found lots of or....should I say....endless arrays of interesting and thought-provoking ideas displayed in the museums. I did not take each of them, though. But, at least here were what I visited:
- the dizzy house where people get dizzy once they step into the house.
- you and I photo box where we can see each other through mirrors...so tricky
- Harp with no strings. But it does make sound when we touch it. It uses air or infrared (?) as its strings.
- Natural history museum (the pictures are here:).
- the history of automobiles up to future rendition.
- the replica of NASA airspace ship (photo later on another entry)
well, I loved the fact that this place is easily attractive to both youngsters and adults alike.

Korea's National Museum of Sciences

The field trip time.
Since I once went to Daejon about 10 years ago, it was a kind of nostalgic field trip, especially after finding out that the field trip would be around Daejon Expo Park area.

After the most sumptuous breakfast ever, we were waiting for the bust that would transport us to the park. We were grouped into 8 buses to ease the flow of 270 people. I could not imagine myself handling that number of people being dragged into one place at the same time.
It turned out that the first stop we visited was not the Expo, it was the National Museum of Sciences. Well, the feeling that museum would be awfully boring had set into my head--guess some would think the same way. Oh, NO. Really?
But....that changed in an instant.
Of course, lots of school kids were playing around the park prior entering into the museum.
As we were approaching the main hall after two escalator rides, my first impression was "WoW", OK, I can do this. The 4-storey museum was huge. Well, the first impression that left mark on me was that it looked just like TAMAN PINTAR in my hometown in Jogjakarta. The difference only in its size. This Daejon one is so much bigger.
The similarities set in....the huge replica (or was it the real one?) Dinosaurs' skeletons erected at the entrance hall were obviously eye-catching. But, wait....the one in Jogja is an animatronic one since it roars:), But, this one in Daejon looked like the real skeleton because it did not move at all. Instead, lots of steel, bolts, and joints were visible so as to hold it steady.
Well, this is how it looked like.