The Leonardo Museum, Salt Lake City, Utah

This museum made me feel like my baby cousin. Everything fascinated me and made me laugh.  For instance, the first thing I saw when I got in was four huge tables covered in Legos.  Unfortunately we had to bypass that section because it was a big building, and we only had about four hours till the museum closed.   The next thing was a display that I learned about scientists who studied starlings and analyzed how they flew. Using this data it was possible to put together a display showing it. The entire idea was that the starlings would follow your hand through a motion sensor.  I really liked the green screen part where I looked like I had been decapitated on the moon. 

After the opening exhibits there was more relating to Leonardo Da Vinci.  Since Leonardo was interested in flight most of the exhibits were on flight and his original ideas.  There were exhibits showing the contrast between his prototypes and the modern airplanes. Surprisingly he wasn’t that far off. 

After the Leonardo section we moved on to the aviation section.  In the aviation section there was a model of an old C-131 that I went in to.  I sat in the pilot’s seat and started pushing random button and switches.  One small part of my brain was worried that I would roll away when I started messing with the parking brake, but luckily nothing bad happened.
On the second floor there was a marble track and a section dedicated to illusions.  The marble track was

magnetic, attached to a metal wall, so my dad and I each built our own.  Some of the illusions were not that good.  Some of them were so good that they made me want to buy a new brain because I thought mine wasn’t working right.  The illusions section gradually turned into a fear section talking about how the brain interprets fear and reacts.  Some of the fears we saw seemed kind of weird to me.  The first was fear of the color or word yellow. The second was the fear of drafts or breezes.  At that point we had 15 minutes until the museum closed, and we had to go.