Sunday 2 March 2014
The Natural History Museum
Partially in an attempt to make peace with the city of London, mostly because I love the museum itself I visited one of landmarks: the Natural History Museum. London's Natural History Museum is truly THE natural history museum, not merely A natural history museum. The first and last time I saw it I was eleven, during my very first trip to England. I had not been back there for all these years and yesterday was a rediscovery. I will post more about it in the upcoming days. I had wanted to go there in ages and more since I had missed Darwin Day. As a child, the museum gave me a crash course in the theory of evolution and in biology, among other things, that I never got at school. This museum made me discover and understand nature a bit more and our origins as a species. And it is a beautiful museum, architecturally speaking. This is why I wanted to upload first a picture of its main entrance. Walking in it is as much an experience as watching the displays. So there it is, I visited the Natural History Museum yesterday and you haven't yet you are missing something.
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Looks like it was a church at one time? That would be fitting for a museum showcasing evolution.
Ooh, I look forward to hearing more. I'm a great museum goer myself, growing up with the California Academy of Sciences, Lawrence Hall of Science, Chabot Space and Science Center and the Oakland Museum all in easy reach.
@Debra-Good call, I thought the same.
@Mantan-There will be more. There is more already.
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