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Last full day in London! Oh gosh… I was so not ready to end my holiday 😦 Sadly, we had to fly back to Canada in the following day and went back to our routine. Anyhow… We started our day pretty late that day. *See the pattern here?! Yes… We were super tired by the end of our 2.5 weeks of walking around beautiful cities in Europe!*

Our first destination was Natural History Museum. The exhibits in this museum are different than the British Museum we visited the day before. As the name represents, Natural History Museum houses thousands of “life and earth sciences specimens” including “botany, entomology, mineralogy, palaentology, and zoology”[ref]. If you have limited time in London and are unable to visit both museums, here is the simplest term to describe each museum: British Museum = mummy vs. Natural History Museum = dinosaurs! In my opinion, if you have small kids who are eager to learn about COOL things, go to Natural History Museum. There are lots of dinosaur fossils and animal taxidermy that really exciting for small kids – even I was super excited to see different dinosaurs bones! hehehe… Oh did I mention that the museum is FREE!!! 🙂

The romanesque design of the building looked like it was from a Harry Potter’s movie! The museum itself is huge! The museum has 4 big sections: dinosaurs (blue), earth ecology (green), geology (red), and Darwin centre (orange). We didn’t have time to explore all the sections of the museum. We only visited the famous dinosaur section, briskly passed through the glass cases containing animal taxidermy, and took a peek into a massive gemstone collection room. Don’t forget to visit the Vision of Earth room that has a giant globe surrounding the elevator from the Exhibition Road entrace. Sadly, we missed to see this cool feature.

As soon as we entered the building,there is a big dinosaur greeted us. COOL! We found a map on one of the wall and decided to visit the dinosaur exhibit first as it’s the most popular exhibit.

TOP: The gorgeous romanesque design of British Natural History Museum
BOTTOM: The map of the museum & the awesome Mammoth tusk

Unfortunately, a lot of people thought the same thing too… The dinosaur exhibit was jammed packed with people! Plus it was hot so sweat smell was everywhere. It was hard to get a good picture too since people would just walk in front of you *grrr…* We started the tour by walking up to the upper railing where we could comfortably see some of dinosaur bones closely. The museum hung some of the bones since they were so tall and long. The high railing was a great tool to observe the dinosaur bones on eye level. We then went down to the ground level to explore more of fossils and fun facts about dinosaurs. At the exit door, they have a full scale T-Rex robot that was cute hahaha…

Cool dinosaurs fossils!

T-Rex robot & other fossils

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