Petrosains

Petrosains,or,the science of petrol, the name of the petrol museum at the base of the Petronas twin towers. Petronas is Malaysia's big oil giant, and it sponsors the museum.

You enter the museum, and leave it, on the dark ride, a tunnel with cars going along it and a voice outlining Malaysia's natural resources. Disembarking the ride, you enter the exhibit on static electricity, with items such as a plasma tube and a wool pad for creating static electricity. It was really cool when Declan got to use the tube to light a fluorescent light. Next up is Gravity, with a construct your on marble track wall. Next was Petrojaya, an imaginary town where people don't use oil as much as we do because they value it more. After a quick tour of Petrojaya, the next exhibit is Dino's . Does anybody know of a science museum that doesn't include dinosaurs? You'd think that there was a law against not having any. After the Dino's was earthquakes and some cool stuff like a faquirrs bed, i.e., a bed of nails. Next, you board a chopper out to a model oil rig. at the oil rig, you got to see crew quarters, medical offices, and the galley and then you move on to velocity and power. At this point, we realized that we were very nearly late or our sky bridge tickets, and bypassed the remnants of the museum (about another quarter of the exhibits).

I was torn about this museum. It is incredibly well designed, and the architect should get a medal, but it's main purpose is to glorify oil, specifically, Petronas oil. As a supporter of alternate energy, I thought that it could do with some improvements. Perhaps Petrojaya could simply be a modern society but without oil? What is the future for Hybrid cars, solar cars, and biodiesel cars? On t5he other hand, Petronas lives by selling oil, and in doing so, it provides many,many jobs. Which is better: millions of jobs, of cleaner air?