Sunday, October 24, 2010

Natural History Museum

Museums have become much more interactive nowadays to entice. Being a citizen from a geographically safe part of the world, the experience of a simulated earthquake did surprised me. Not by the vibrations per se actually, but by how much thought they put into designing the gallery. "Restless surface" - how appropriate.


Best of all, let me re-iterate, it's free.



Natural History Museum is divided into several coloured zones, easy to navigate around except for the blue zone. It was the most popular because of all-time-favourite - Dinosaurs. DO NOT go on weekends as the queue is horrendous, 30 minutes to get in. We skipped that.


Entrance - to the Earth's Core in the red zone...


Best greeting of all - Rah!


The red zone was all about rock, metamorphic or sedimentary, you name it. This is supposed to be rocks from freeze-thaw weathering. Artistic representation.


Coloured rocks. Imperfections are prettier.


Gallery on EM Waves. UV Ray representation.


...and it tries hard to be philosophical


All about the eco-world - The Green Zone


Too friendly to be true.




Birds zone was most interesting. Life-like.




Most handsome animal. After dogs.


Omelette?


Human Anatomy Gallery - Aliens


Recycled paper notebook.




Of course.