ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) – Families filled the Burpee Museum of Natural History this weekend for its annual Holocene Holiday: an event focused on life during the Ice Age and how it connects to the world today.
The event features interactive stations throughout the museum, including hands-on learning about Ice Age animals, early humans, food sources and survival skills. Visitors explored exhibits like the Ice Age kitchen, cave art stations, scavenger hunts and displays focused on animals such as dire wolves and mammoths.
Nathan Pearson and his daughter Victoria traveled from Minnesota and stopped at the museum while visiting family in Rockford.
“On our way out of town today, we decided to stop by the museum,” Pearson said. “We hadn’t heard of it before until my sister-in-law told us about it, and we decided to stop by, because Victoria really likes dinosaurs, fossils and things like that.”…