The MN History Museum

Yesterday my family and I travelled to the Minnesota History Center to see the Ben Franklin exhibit, and it was a very worthwhile trip!  The exhibit boasted chairs, bowls, portraits and the like from Franklin's own home, while including many interactive displays as well.  My family learned a lot not only about the amazing Benjamin Franklin but also about printing, apprenticeship, and old-fashioned fire-fighting.  One of out most interesting discoveries came while watching a video about printing presses in Franklin's time.  The printer had to set the type by hand, taking the letters from two cases in the picture - the capital letters from the top, or upper case, and the small letters from the bottom, or lower case!  It is always so interesting to learn the origin of a common expression, and one can find more than that at the Ben Franklin exhibit, as well as learning about one of our country's most amazing founding fathers.