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With three new classrooms and a mineral gallery, The Bruce Museum in Greenwich has reopened following a major $67 million expansion and renovation project. &nbsp;

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In this week's Road Trip Close to Home, News 12 Photojournalist Lori Golias takes us to the new Bruce Museum.

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Yeah, Nick again, some heavy rain is on tap for your Sunday. You'll get to enjoy a lot of your Saturday. Uh, but again, as we push forward into your Sunday afternoon, we're watching for heavy rain, we could see upwards to two, maybe three inches of rain for some spots. And we're watching for some strong gusty winds upwards to 50 MPH. We're gonna time things out. Futurecast takes us through what's gonna be again, a chilly morning for today. Heading into this afternoon, we're still gonna work with some sunshine. That's the plus side to today. I know yesterday was mainly gray and a lot of cloud cover. We're gonna see some more sun heading into the afternoon with those numbers into the forties, 45 for West, 44 for Norwalk heading into tonight. You will still need that heavy coat with numbers dropping off down into the thirties. Then we see those temperatures on the up as we're pushing forward into your Saturday again, a lot more cloud cover for you tomorrow to start off the weekend. But look at some of these numbers 52 for Newtown. It'll feel good out here in Norwalk at 50 as well. 53 for those out toward orange. Certainly coming after a stretch of some cold days. Now, to be honest with you, we're kind of dealing with the same setup that we did last week. We had Wednesday, Thursday with some chilly weather. Friday. Numbers started to bounce back. It was a pretty decent Saturday last week. And if you remember and then what happened Sunday, we brought in some rain. We're seeing another storm this Sunday, early parts of your Sunday look to be ok for right now again, the timing could shift. So you gotta stay locked in with us. Still work with 50 degree weather for the early parts of your Sunday. We're actually gonna get into the sixties, but it's gonna be tough to enjoy because there lies again, some heavy rain, you could see some clusters, some thunderstorms potentially heading into the afternoon. We're gonna get a little bit of a break by your six o'clock hour. But then look what happens heading into your Sunday night overnight. Parts of your Monday, we'll work with another swath of some heavy rain and thunderstorm activity. So for that first round, you're looking at about a half of an inch and then once we push through your Monday morning after that commute to back to work or school, you're looking at an additional two inches. So that's where we can see some spots, 2 to 3 inches of some rain, strong gusty winds upwards to 40 maybe 50 MPH for the overnight. So you maybe want to tie down those Halloween, um, those Christmas decorations and stuff around the house. And then as we fast forward into the second half of your Monday, we start.

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Newly renovated Bruce Museum brings art, science and natural history all together

The Bruce Museum in Greenwich brings art science and natural history all together. Now, a $67 million building project has more than doubled its size. This week's road trip, close to home news, 12 photo journalist, Laurie Goli takes us to the New Bruce that we have a much larger space with different galleries with different periods of art and a sculpture gallery. We are at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut. We just reopened on April 2nd with our new expansion, we now have three classrooms for education programs. My favorite part has to be being able to go into all the galleries and just looking at the expanded collection in pieces. It's so bright and welcoming. And we also have the new Robert R Weiner Mineral Gallery which is a permanent installation and is just spectacular. The mineral collection is out of this world. Currently, we have a penguin exhibit. Visitors will see all types of penguins. So we're all familiar with the Antarctic species like the emperor penguin, but you might not know about the little blue penguin who is only about £2 and stands about one ft tall. So we have two of those and a baby. Um, you'll see the yellow eyed penguin, which as advertised has bright yellow eyes. We have penguins that live in deserts. We have penguins that live on rocky Sub Antarctic islands. We have penguins that even breed in coastal forests. The space is wonderful. It lets us tell the full story of some of these amazing creatures that's worth it right there for the kids. There's also a permanent installation. This is called Natural Cycles Shape our lands and it has geology, paleontology. Some Long Island sound a little bit about the ice age and then the big backyard, which is one of my favorite parts. It features diorama of insects and other invertebrates at 20 times life scale. So you'll see, you know, a bumble bee, the size of a small dog, for example. Um That's a lot of fun, beautifully executed. So you really get to see details that you would never be able to witness if you're just looking at the animal, you know, crawling around on a leaf. Uh It's really something to see if this size. You can see some live flounders and crabs in, in our um marine gallery. The Bruce museum is a real asset to the community and people come here just to get away from the outside world. What makes The Bruce special to me is that we're a museum of art and science and there's not many museums that do both. I think, you know, we're even better than before. It's got something for everyone. Now that we have a cafe and a huge auditorium, even more people can come enjoy the Bruce Museum. It's a real destination that's beautiful and really inviting for everyone. Well, they did a beautiful job, didn't they? Yes. Yes. That first when you walk in and you see all the rainbow colors, blue and those paintings gorgeous. And there's so much to see as they said. So Tuesday is free day at the Bruce and reservations are suggested the Bruce stores also open during museum hours. So if you like more information, head over to news 12 dot com.

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