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?
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