Leonland - Leon Barnard
Chapter 4 > The NY American Museum of Natural History
New York has the best of everything, including the best natural history museum that I've ever been to. It's really cool and has a lot to see. There was a really cool exhibit on the history of baseball that I didn't have time to see. I spent most of my time looking at the vertibrates walk and the space stuff.
The museum is huge, it takes up 4 street blocks and 1 avenue block (New Yorkers will know what I mean). It's also gorgeous, especially the 77th street side.
I started out at this butterflies exhibit, which was neat.
At any other natural history museum you'd just have dead butterflies behind glass, but at this one you can actually go in a room with live butterflies all over the place. It was fun.
I had a good time trying to imagine one of these walking around today.
I don't know what this was, but it looks pretty mean.
The "corrected" T-Rex, leaning over more than it used to.
The Triceratops. This used to be my favorite during my Dinosaur phase when I was a kid. I'm a Triceratops kinda guy.
Their space stuff was really impressive and well-presented.
I can't remember what this is supposed to be - the universe, a galaxy? Anyway, they did a good job of using relative sizes to give you an idea of scale.
Posted by Leon on May 16, 2002 10:46 PM [Top of page]
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