Somehow made it on time to my time slot for the Natural History Museum at 2:30. The building is as magnificent as the contents! I wish everyone could see this whale.
4:32 pm
Just finished going throught he British Natural History Museum.
My Favorite things?
** Archaopterix - The Bird exhibit says the original is with "treasures" but the Treasures exhibit say it is temporarily viewable with Birds - A Mystery!
** The original Prits Filled in with water color - 1st editions, ALL of them!
** The Giant Sloth - I know I know, we have one in the Natural History Museum in DC, but I think this one is either bigger or better somehow.
** The gorgoeous fossils of the Plesiosaurs & Ichthyosaurs - ALL of them! There are so many!
** selecions of domestic (and foreign) minerals
I love the architecture!
The building exterior is beautiful, but until I got to the top level balcony I didn't realize the tiles in the ceiling were individually printed with herbology plates.
So many tributes to Darwin and Appologetic nods to the forgotten Mr. Wallace, who joint published on Origin of the Species.
I'm ending this afternoon's museum visit at their Indian Ocean tsunami memorial.
It is small & unasuminging, but the design is powerful. Over 200,000 people died December 26, 2004. They should not be forgotten, nor our responsibility to help those who are unable to develop & buy the technology themselves. These deaths could have been avoided.
It's always hard to remember. For me, it was a moment like the World Trade Center crashing. I woke up the day after Christmas and heard about the Tsunami hitting the Indian Ocean Rim as people were still sleeping in the locations with the most devastating impacts. That it was hitting one nation after the next, with unimaginable human tolls. It's hard to wrap one's head around the fact that it happened in 2004, during a time when the information was available to communicate out, but they did not have the technology to receive it. This was a devastating day for the World.
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