My visit to the Natural History Museum, London

[Jaimin013]

1 minute ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Goodness! 

Just so many pics! 

I'll have to have a more detailed look tomorrow. 

Love them. 

The bats are very cute. 

There are a lot of pictures it takes a while to go through them to digest the amount of specimens. The bats are amazing up close! I have never seen one in real life up and close so it was really cool!

[Tidgy's Dad]

Love the birds, ancient and modern too! 

[Jaimin013]

4 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Love the birds, ancient and modern too! 

They had such a variety of species. I used to have an African grey parrot and birds in general are awesome! It was nice to see the Archaeopteryx specimen (earliest known bird). On the Natural History Museum website they state that the specimen is the first one ever found and the most valuable fossil in the Museum's collection.

[Tidgy's Dad]

Oh, yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

very much love the invertebrate stuff near the end there. 

Much more my collecting scene. 

I will spend hours perusing these over the next few days. 

[Jaimin013]

1 minute ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Oh, yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

very much love the invertebrate stuff near the end there. 

Much more my collecting scene. 

I will spend hours perusing these over the next few days. 

I am glad to see you like the photos! The invertebrate material is really nice! I am definitely going to visit the museum soon again! It was really fun to spend my Sunday which is normally spent being lazy and actually get out and do something!

[Tidgy's Dad]

1 hour ago, Jaimin013 said:

 

 

 

This is my favourite section so far! 

Marvelous! 

[Tidgy's Dad]

19 minutes ago, Jaimin013 said:

Thanks that's all I will be posting! I had the entire day there so went overboard on taking photos! I think I literally took photos of the majority of the museum specimens on display haha! Oh that's really cool! The section of the museum with the Malachite and other types of the minerals etc was absolutely incredible you really need to go see it they have a huge room full of specimen's its impossible to see all of them there is just so many! The specimens are in rows after rows. The museum overall has so many specimens from all around the world!

I've had the privilege of going into the vaults underneath, miles of tunnels with specimens not touched for centuries. 

Breathtaking, one of my most exhilarating experiences.  

[Jaimin013]

4 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

This is my favourite section so far! 

Marvelous! 

I wish I had taken more photos of that section oh well! I would say go visit it for yourself you will love it!

[Jaimin013]

2 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

I've had the privilege of going into the vaults underneath, miles of tunnels with specimens not touched for centuries. 

Breathtaking, one of my most exhilarating experiences.  

Nice one day I want to do something like that. On their website they actually have a behind the scenes tour thing which I may do soon! http://www.nhm.ac.uk/events/behind-the-scenes-tour-the-spirit-collection.html

[Tidgy's Dad]

Excellent thread! 

For so many reasons, I love this! 

But the tortoises are my favourites! 

[Jaimin013]

38 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Excellent thread! 

For so many reasons, I love this! 

But the tortoises are my favourites! 

Thanks! I love tortoises they are so cute!

 

[LordTrilobite]

Wow that's a great series of photos!

[Jaimin013]

1 hour ago, LordTrilobite said:

Wow that's a great series of photos!

Thanks! I hope you enjoyed them!

[Abstraktum]

Boy, I was in some epic museums with some awesome fossils, but this tops everything.

 

Still wasn't able to get to the museum even though I was already 4 times in London. Will be on my top priority list for my next visit

 

Thank you for the awesome pictures.

[Jaimin013]

12 hours ago, Abstraktum said:

Boy, I was in some epic museums with some awesome fossils, but this tops everything.

 

Still wasn't able to get to the museum even though I was already 4 times in London. Will be on my top priority list for my next visit

 

Thank you for the awesome pictures.

You definitely need to go visit the museum next time you are in London! It is amazing!