Don't miss this New Jersey Top 5 family event!
EDISON, N.J. - March 27, 2016 - PRLog -- A 38-foot long Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton locked in mortal combat with a Triceratops, the special exhibit 'Natural Histories' from the American Museum of Natural History, the hugely popular glow-in-the-dark ultraviolet mineral room from the Sterling Hill Mining Museum, several items on loan from the Smithsonian Institution and the Cold War Museum, two dozen unique exhibits from private collectors including 'The History of Radiation', children's activities like geode busting, gemstone sluicing, metal detection, and a fossil dig, meet the stars of the TV show 'Prospectors', touch rocks from the Moon and Mars, and see lots more dinosaurs, fossil whales, and other showy Earth treasures throughout the show. All this and more surprises await you at the 5th annual NY / NJ Mineral, Fossil, Gem and Jewelry Show running April 8 thru 10 at the NJ Convention and Expo Center. Come join 14,000 other like-minded nature and science lovers. You simply cannot miss this 'New Jersey Top 5 Family Event'!
In addition to exhibits, attractions, and demonstrations, you can browse 350 vendor booths of treasures from the Earth and Space. Everything is for sale and priced from $1 to $1 million. This is the largest gem show east of the Mississippi River and will offer exotic minerals, crystals, gold, silver, artisan jewelry, fossils of every description and age, dinosaurs (and their poop), home décor, Lithuanian fossil amber (with and without insects), Arizona petrified wood, Mexican turquoise, Australian opals, Columbian emeralds, Afghanistan tourmaline, Mohave agates, Brazilian amethyst, Madagascar ammonites, Indian Zeolites, Zaire malachite, Chinese fluorite, Moroccan mosasaur teeth, California gold nuggets, Burma rubies, Russian meteorites, NJ ultraviolet rocks, and so much, much more.
The NY / NJ Mineral, Fossil, Gem and Jewelry Show is organized and run by Eons Expos, a team of four Jersey siblings that also organizes similar shows in Denver and Tucson. The NY / NJ Show nearly fills the 150,000-sq.-foot NJ Expo Center and the always-changing special exhibits keep folks coming back every year.
Free parking. Admission is $10 for adults and children 12 and over, $5 for Children ages 5 - 11, and those under 5 are free. One admission is good for all three days. The first 1,000 children receive a free piece of fossil dinosaur bone from the Dinosaurs Rock booth next to the sluice. Show hours are Noon to 9 pm on Friday, and 10 am to 6 pm on Saturday & Sunday. The on-site eatery offers fairly priced food and there is enough to keep your attention that you'll want to stay for three or four hours. Please visit www.NYNJ.show for more info. (HINT: Friday between 6 pm and 9 pm is our least busy time.)
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