I was fortunate enough to be one of the very first (from the public) to spend the day at the new Natural History Museum of Utah today. I took my 14 year old granddaughter and her friend. They were great! I simply could go on forever about what a great museum this is and is going to be. Everything was open, all the labs and storage areas that will not be open most days. Everything worked as it should on the first day except the Heliostat and solar telescope that was formerly at the Hansen Planetarium. The total overcast prevented it from doing it's thing. This brought about the funniest part of the day. So many things in the museum are "interactive" and at the Heliostat people were waving their hands over the table and pushing buttons and trying to get a display. I informed them that it needed sunlight to work. (can you imagine that) After a few laughs we moved on to talking about the Venus Transit in 2012 and I found a fairly large audience that was very receptive to hearing about the plans that SLAS is working on. I think we will have a crowd from the msueum that will be very interested in Astronomy either solar or night time. Here is a teaser, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXrug5MjuEw A small astronomy area but it is there! Check out the new museum, I think you will be glad you did.Steve