http://www.pioneervalley.info The who, what, where site for the Pioneer Valley Thu, 17 May 2012 21:30:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.pioneervalley.info/towns/hampshire-county/amherst/the-amherst-college-museum-of-natural-history_id=624 http://www.pioneervalley.info/towns/hampshire-county/amherst/the-amherst-college-museum-of-natural-history_id=624#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:41:46 +0000 Jo Landers http://localhost/pv_new/?p=624 The Amherst College Museum of Natural History (formerly the Pratt Museum) contains three floors of exhibits and over 1700 individual specimens. There are a variety of displays on vertebrate evolution and extinction, geology of the Connecticut River Valley, and the world's largest collection of dinosaur tracks, many from…]]> http://www.pioneervalley.info/towns/hampshire-county/amherst/the-amherst-college-museum-of-natural-history_id=624/feed/ 0 http://www.pioneervalley.info/towns/hampden-county/springfield/springfield-science-museum_id=46 http://www.pioneervalley.info/towns/hampden-county/springfield/springfield-science-museum_id=46#comments Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:23:29 +0000 Jo Landers http://www.pioneervalley.info/towns/hampden-county/springfield/springfield-science-museum_id=46/feed/ 0 http://www.pioneervalley.info/towns/hampshire-county/amherst/eric-carle-museum-of-picture-book-art_id=634 http://www.pioneervalley.info/towns/hampshire-county/amherst/eric-carle-museum-of-picture-book-art_id=634#comments Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:41:33 +0000 Jo Landers http://localhost/pv_new/?p=634 The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is the first full-scale museum in this country devoted to national and international picture book art, conceived and built with the aim of celebrating the art that we are first exposed to as children. The Museum features three Galleries…]]> http://www.pioneervalley.info/towns/hampshire-county/amherst/eric-carle-museum-of-picture-book-art_id=634/feed/ 0 http://www.pioneervalley.info/especially-for-kids/especially-for-kids_id=26 http://www.pioneervalley.info/especially-for-kids/especially-for-kids_id=26#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:47:32 +0000 Jo Landers http://www.pioneervalley.info/especially-for-kids/especially-for-kids_id=26/feed/ 0