Visit to Lausanne Museum of Natural Sciences!
atural History Museum visit!
Officially, it's the Cantonal Museum of Zoology, now part of the Museum of Natural Sciences.
Such a fascinating place! We spent an entire afternoon there, and would definitely go back!
Warning, in the photos below, there are some different organs and other things preserved in jars.
Pelican! There was an entire floor devoted to a taxidermy collection that was at least a century old!
Happy shark! This entire visit came about because of this happy shark tumblr post!
Pufferfish!
Octopus!
Lepidoptera
Cryptozoology!
Bernard Heuvelmans -- and a link to Tintin!
Gulls!
Animals that have gone extinct
Tatzelwurm!
Quetzal
A taxidermy display from the 1952
Trilobite!
Amethyst!
Pounamu
Gold!
Beautiful flower fossil
Meteorite!
Meteorite!
I featured this meteorite in a story!
Iguanadon!
Beautiful things
Snails!
Poppies!
The Swiss connection with Metis in Canada!
Keys!
Chillon Castle model
Napoleon's death mask. I was not expecting to see that!
What are your favourite weird things to see in natural history museums?
Comments
Bet the kids loved this museum … as much as their parents – our Grant Museum of Zoology is just wonderful too … full of creepy crawlies, slippery slitheries, cabinets of curiosities and odd oddities …
Similar in outlook too … and we had an Anaconda skeleton wrap around, and a Micrarium – where they highlighted the fact that 95% of known animal species are smaller than our thumbs!
I had to look up your Mylodon and Tatzelwurm – interesting extinct species … then the trilobite … wonderful to see … I picked up Amethyst pieces in Namibia … Gold sources – nope didn't find any of that! Then the flower fossil – how amazing.
Then one of your favourite men – Alfred Russel Wallace … and the Swiss connection with the Meti, from Canada …
Lovely reminder post - thanks for all the info ... cheers Hilary