Every time I go I discover a different section or notice a different part in an exhibition I thought I knew. Yesterday I discovered the dinosaurs and they were fantastic, especially the motorised and roaring T-Rex. I do have a photo of him but I won't be uploading it as you should just go and see him yourself! I also discovered a replica of Lucy. I already knew about Lucy and her missing link type status, I think her name helped that stick in my mind. But I hadn't realised how incomplete the specimen was. For it still to be such a significant find, I was impressed.
I also came across the furry creature you can find below. He's a mesonychid, and last time me and Joe visited he had sparked a bit of outrage. The sign that accompanies him states that over millions of years creatures like this evolved into whales. Joe was dismissive of this idea but I trust the people who claim this have much greater evidence than the animal behind this glass, it just wouldn't make such a cute display!
Despite all of the interesting exhibits and artefacts the museum has, yesterday was more of a day for me and my camera. And as fiddled with buttons and played with settings I couldn't help being drawn to the incredible architecture inside that building. Of course, it's an astounding building from the outside, but I was inside, in the warm, and still being mesmerised by beautiful details. The colours of the brick work and the decoration on the ceilings are gorgeous. But more so I was captured by the little details that didn't need to be put there, it would be a magnificent building without them. There are rams heads at the bottom of pillars, there are flowers and birds carved into archways and hanging in some of those archways are little monkeys. The place could have been an empty building, no people, no exhibits, and I would still feel at home.
