I have spent the past few weeks sick and waiting for deliveries (happily they happened over the same weeks I guess) so haven't really done much. The last week has been super stressful and difficult so this weekend I decided to get out of the house. However despite doing nothing, it has been an expensive month. But soon my furniture will be delivered and I will have a complete liveable apartment. All very exciting. But expensive. However the Natural history museum is free.
They had a insect and creepy crawly exhibit. I regretted it as soon as I got in there. I have lived with cockroaches close up - I do not need to see them again. I got out of there quickly as my skin was crawling.
The main hall is the mammals, with giant models everywhere.
They have a great dinosaur museum but it was so crowded at this point, I just could not be bothered! I zipped around. (I'll have to go back another day and see it properly.)
I got a ticket for the "behind the scenes" tour. It was more expensive than I expected but very good. Though the woman didn't speak very good english so half my questions did not get answered - but I did get answers to other questions I didn't ask, even if it took some time to understand what those questions might have been.
I really recommend the tour. You get to see the specimen rooms. Unfortunately there was not a lot of time to take any photos but it was very interesting. And they have a 8.6m long giant squid. Very cool.
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| Dinosaur! |
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| Skull |
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| Horns. |
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| Fossil |
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| Display of hundreds of humming birds. |
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| Dodo!!!! (Bigger than I expected) |
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| Giant sloth (seriously giant) |
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| Giant scorpion model |
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| Dinosaur in the main hall |
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| Inside of a tortoise. |
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| Snake skeleton |
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| Croc and her skeleton |
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| Sea fan |
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| Sae basket (type of star fish) |
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| Rhino! |
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| Wooly mammoth (surprisingly small skull/brain) |
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| Narwhales can have 2 tusks!!!(1 in every 500). So cool |
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| Hall, dominated by blue whale |
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| Hippos - scary!!! |
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| T-rex |
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| More dinos. |
I really recommend the tour. You get to see the specimen rooms. Unfortunately there was not a lot of time to take any photos but it was very interesting. And they have a 8.6m long giant squid. Very cool.
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| The squid. |
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| Tentaces (and the claws) |
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| Part of the specimen room |
After the tour, it was even busier (and people were still queueing to get in) so I hit the gift shop before calling it a day. I didn't mean to buy anything, but like I said it has been a rough week. So I thought maybe something nice to treat myself. But I went all kid. And got a stuff toy and a book of pictures of baby animals.
Well I figure if the next weeks are going to be anything like this one - a god chance of that - these will help. And if a book of baby animal pictures can't, things are really tough. Happily so far they work! Can't help but smile! :)
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| Treats (big kid at heart!) |
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