Baoding Museum of Natural History

[Isotelus2883]

I visited the Baoding Natural History Museum today. It’s advertised as the largest Natural History museum in Asia. They’ve got a nice dinosaur collection, but I visited and focused on the great exhibit on the early fishes of Yunnan. 

I apologise for the fuzzy photos as the nice ones took up too much.

But first, some other nice things they had on display.

A Pulalius from Washington, lovely leg tips but not comparable to the ones prepped and shown on here.

Lovely Edicarian stuff.

Moroccan material, some lovely spiny things.

Chengjiang Biota.

And others.

This Ordos basin material is pretty cool.

Group.

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[Isotelus2883]

Here are the fish.

This nice material. They had some other head shields I forgot to take pictures of.

Tiny, but interesting. Parayunnanolepis.

Nice diorama.

Nice fishy.

And the piece this museum is famous for, this beautiful fish plate. Xiushanosteus mirabilis.

[Shellseeker]

1 hour ago, Isotelus2883 said:

Moroccan material, some lovely spiny things.

Thank you , very much for taking me places I could not have gone on my own.  I have always enjoyed Natural History museums and virtual is almost as good as being there.

I went to a Museum 2 weeks ago and posted a number of photos. Because of you, I now have a name for the one in the center of this photo...

 

I had one problem with many of my photos that you seem to have avoided.. Glare from lights over the glass enclosed exhibits...  I just have an iphone 12 and have these photos 

Note both the image of my shadow and the glare from over head lights.  

Your photos have neither... Is that due to the Museum setup or to your camera?  Thanks

[Isotelus2883]

Just stick your phone camera right up against the glass. I did also have some shadow issues, but the lighting made them faint enough.