Museum of Life and Science, North Carolina

This museum is in Durham, about 2.5 hours away.  It was first started in 1946 with a focus on the sciences.  It has a ton or cool hands-on exhibits in the main building, a Butterfly House, Outdoor treehouse playground, Farmyard, Dinosaur Trail, and the narrow gauge Ellerbe Creek C.P. Huntington train. All of us had a lot of fun exploring the exhibits.  My favorite was that they had a section about quilting and how the patterns follow all the rules of geometry!