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24th May 2011
Exhibition of Fossils, Semi Precious Stones and Insect at AIC Campus in Budapest
Those students and staff at AIC who were still around last Friday afternoon, could witness how people arranged one class room after the other and carried desks and chairs down into the basement to prepare for the exhibition. hen asking them –slightly puzzled about such activities- one learned that preparations were under way for the first major Exhibition on fossils, semi-precious stones and insects to be held that weekend (28th and 29th of May 2011) in the main building of Avicenna International College in Budapest.
The next days surprised the visitors as well as seasoned staff members of AIC with a never before seen hustle and bustle. Already in the front yard a friendly pop-corn vendor with his nice red and yellow mobile pop-corn booth was luring in mostly young visitors. Just next to him kids but also adults could engage in real gold-washing actions.
Not only were the fossils embedded in rocks as they appear in nature, but one could also marvel on such exhibits where they had been liberated from the ancient rocks by painstaking and very precise work and they looked really as if they would still be alive today. In other fossil exhibits the objects were cut in half and expertly polished to reveal magnificently even the hidden inside of those truly ancient creatures.
On many stands visitors were given insight into minerals, rocks and gems. These could also be seen both as “raw” products and as well as polished exhibits. The latter ones obviously revealing the full beauty of these minerals. At yet another stalls sparkling gems and even jewellery made from them could be adored but also bought. At the stand of some exhibitors of minerals and gems, visitors had the unique opportunity to watch the finest details of minerals through a microscope, which was a real “aha” experience not only for the kids, but also for most visitors.
In one of the exhibit rooms neatly pinned insects could be admired and compared. They consisted in majority of large and showy tropical and sub-tropical beetles, butterflies and huge cicadas (these belong to the real bug order).
The more esotherical minded visitors could have had their aura photographed and analyzed by a specialist of this field, while children had also the opportunity to engorge themselves on a wide variety of sweets on offer.
