Monday, March 23, 2015

Oct 2013: The face of wonder at the Natural History Museum

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So one weekend, we decided to go to the Natural History Museum to have some fun.

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The museum puts up a nice little ice rink, you can see the little penguins being ready for the show.

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And we reach the museum

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we are ready..

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Opposite the Natural History Museum is the V&A Museum with its brilliant facades.

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We pop inside

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To see these statues..pretty ferocious, eh>?

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we head up the escalator

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and I spot my constellation

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Compacting

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She sells sea shells on the sea shore.

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worn away rocks

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more wonder. And now for some minerals and crystals

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  amazing stuff….i could gaze on them for hours

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We reach the gem stones, hello there…

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can you see that Baba?

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Dead as a Dodo

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There’s Baba the dinosaur…

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Now why would you put this up here, eh?

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Dung Beetles :)

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Magic Mirrors

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hmmm, looks weird

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There’s Dippy

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And Mr. Darwin, whose voyage we will follow a bit

And then we move into a little display gallery which shows the treasures of the Natural History Museum

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A most exquisite set of painted pages, very old..

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Darwin’s collection of pigeons.

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Alfred Wallace’s insects…who co-discovered the theory of evolution with Charles Darwin.

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The first edition of the famous book.

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The first Neanderthal Skull discovered

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The first fossil of Archeopteryx…its a cast…the earliest known bird.

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We head out to another gallery

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this is the minerals gallery, full of treasures.

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Amazing stuff, I tell you/

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And this is like magic…look at how they change colours under a different light..

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Awwww, Joey…

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My little bear cub…

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Gosh, he looks a bit upset.

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Another wonder moment.

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More mammals

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final explorations…

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Hmmm, i wonder if I can pop in for a snog?

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And we are heading back home, eating a little biscuit…lovely wonderful day full of joy and excitement and eyes going goggle goggle.

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