MAPS Museum

#Museum of #Archaeology #Paleontology and #Science. Hosts the largest collection of pre-Columbian artifacts in North America.

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Chocolate World Tour Travel back to the ancient Maya, where cacao was sacred, then taste chocolate from around the world. Learning never tasted so good.

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Attn. New Port Richians - Did you know: JAN 12th is "New Port Richey Residents Day" at Dino & Dragons? It's true! But not only that, did you also know that NPR residents can receive $5 off the regular ticket price JAN 12th, when they use the promo code: Resident at checkout?!

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Tampa Bay's FOX 13 News Charley Belcher visits MAPS Museum in New Port Richey!
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TODAY - SEP 16th is National "Collect Rocks" Day... or as we like to call it, Friday!

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Dino & Dragons - coming to New Port Richey DEC 9 - FEB 26. Experience life-sized dinosaurs as you've never seen them before. From the BIGGEST long necks, to the most ferocious predators that ever walked the Earth!

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FUN FACT: Nautiluses are living fossils. They have been living on planet earth for the last 500 million years with no adjustments in their appearance. Nautiluses occupied the Earth 265 million years BEFORE dinosaurs showed up.
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HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!
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A 3,400 year old painter's palette originating from ancient Egypt.

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DID YOU KNOW: The Museum of Archaeology, Paleontology & Science, in New Port Richey, actually hosts one of the largest collections of pre-Columbian artifacts in North America!

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BIG Thanks to the Boy Scouts of America and the Eagle Scout Project. #BuildingBridges

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JUNE 17 - Happy National Flip Flop Day!
Now, we know what you're thinking; What do flip flops have to do with the MAPS museum? Nothing really... except THIS!

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FUN FACT: It is estimated over 3 million shipwrecks lie on the ocean floor, including roughly 20 million tons of lost gold.

MAPS Museum Marine Archaeology Exhibit displays artifacts retrieved from actual shipwrecks!

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Gilded cartonnage mummy mask of Thuya, great grandmother of Tutankhamun. Discovered in 1905, Tomb KV46, Valley of the Kings. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, c.1390–1352 BC. Egyptian Museum, Cairo. 📷: © Alison Fisk

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