Tellus Science Museum
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- Weinman Mineral Gallery
- Fossil Gallery, with well-detailed casts of Mesozoic land and marine creatures
- Millar Science in Motion Gallery, exhibiting past and modern transportation displays
- Collins Family My Big Backyard, exhibiting hands-on experiments with light, sound, magnetism and electricity
- Bentley Planetarium
- Observatory, with a 20-inch Planewave reflecting telescope and a Coronado solar scope
- Theater
- Banquet halls
- The Vault, sub-gallery featuring local mineral, paleontological and archeological treasures
- The Crossroads Gallery, featuring recent to modern marvels
- 'West Virginia University Solar House, built by university students for the 2015 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon
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History
Tellus was founded as the Weinman Mineral Museum in 1983, which closed in 2007 and reopened as Tellus Science Museum in 2009. The museum retains the original mineral displays in the Weinman Mineral Gallery.
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