The Museum of Natural History...

Is Awesome! There are four sections of the Museum: Dinosours, Plants and animals, Earth and how it works, and a cocoon which has something like 20 Million plant and animal specimin with explenations about scientific process and how the scientists do their work (including a bit on how bringing a good thing of tea on expiditions is vital).

 

The dinosour exhibit had fosils hanging from the cieling which you could see as you walked through the catwalks to get to the main exhibit.

 

I had never heard of about half of these, like this one. there was a plack with it's name but I forgot.

 

RAWR I SHALL EAT YOU!

 

Oh no! don't eat my I have spikes.

I'll peck your eyes out with my duckbill.

 

These dudes are seriously scary little bugger's, if only 2 feet tall.

 

Same as above, but these ones were animated and would roar at you as you walked past.

 

and the obligatory preditor that snapped it's teeth at the crowd and roared.

would have been considerably more awesome if there had been someone manning the controls so that it was actually interacting with the crowd.

Aww, babies!

 

Almost as awesome as the exhibits was the architecture of the museum. as my uncle commented "it's a cathedral to knowledge". It realy is, complete with the small shrines in the corners, the stained glass windows and the asking for donations.

 

The building was not only breathtaking, it was huge. I could spend another day or two and still not have seen all the exhibits.

It's a dodo! by the way this is no longer the dinosour portion of the museum, this is the birds and animals part.

 

An ostrige

 

and her babies.

 

but what is this? it looks like a tree.

And it is. but instead of leaves it had little colourful birds on it. This is an antique from when having dead birds in ones house was fashionable.

and now the earth part.

 

the nearest statue is madusa, followed by a rock formation and it the background is a replica of earthwith an escalator going into it.

A cave man and an astronout, these all have really cheesy titles like "Imaginings of Earth's future/past/etc"

There was so much more than just this, but I didn't have time to get pictures of it all. maybe someday I'll go back and see the rest of the museum.

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P. Butter the penguin.