Hutchings Museum

Katie and I went to the Hutchings Museum here in Lehi. It was really fun. It is a great natural history museum, and originally the site of the town jail was in part of the building. There were exhibits on World Wars I and II, the wild West, birds and mammals, fossils, clothes, old schools and school rules, an old organ and musical inventions, and rocks, rocks, rocks. I loved the rocks! We also enjoyed getting into the jail, the bank vault (Katie is partly behind the vault door in the photo), and trying on old hats. The little girls who were helping the museum lady that collected our money and welcomed us inside showed us the private room with the live birds: peregrine falcons with masks on (they looked dead until one moved and Katie gasped in surprise); great horned owl and screech owls, a cockatoo or some huge white plumed bird that talked a lot, etc. They were part of a travelling exhibit and somehow were in a back room today at the museum. We had a nice time. Then Katie treated us to Wendy's afterwards. We have had a fun time this week.