Few weeks ago we went to visit a very interesting exhibition from the Natural History Museum in London. The exhibit ran from July 4th until September 19th, 2018. So if you missed it, you will have to fly to London to see it.
"A range of our finest objects and specimens have been selected for their cultural and scientific importance, colourful stories and the historical events they represent." (From the Natural History Museum website)
Over 200 items were presented at the exhibition. Among others you could see:
• things belonging to Sir Hans Sloane whose collection formed the core of the Natural History Museum and the British Museum
• birds collected on Charles Darwin’s Beagle voyage, which led him to his theory of evolution
by natural selection
• a Martian meteorite
• bones from a dinosaur first described by Sir Richard Owen in his paper where he first used the term dinosaur
• beetles collected by the famous explorer Dr David Livingstone
• watercolour paintings produced on Captain James Cook’s first voyage by the artist Sydney Parkinson
• fossils collected on Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition to the South Pole
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| Antarctic fossil wood |
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| Giant fossilized trilobites |
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| One of the lion statue from in front of the Natural History Museum in London. |
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| Historia Naturalis is the oldest book in the Natural History Museum, it was printed in 1469. |
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| Extinct moa bird |
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| The small tortoise on the left was Darwin's pet, James. |
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| Alfred Russel Wallace has done a great deal of research on orangutans. |
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| Sir Hans Sloane’s medicine drawer. |
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| Corals, slides and other samples collected on the HMS Challenger expedition (1872-1876) |
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| Saber-toothed tiger skeleton. |
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| Tasmanian tiger (front) and tiger (back) |
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| Dodo |
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