Today’s museum was something a bit different that puts a new perspective on things, after all the recent horrible twentieth century history we have been looking at. This afternoon, we visited the Natural History Museum, particularly to see the tallest mounted dinosaur (Brachiosaurus). There were lots of families with young children enjoying the exhibits, although it has mostly traditional-style museum exhibits, with very little hands-on.
http://www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/en/
Coming from a family of biologists, I even liked this room!
Did you know that dragonflies and Ginko trees were around 150 million years ago? As well as the mid-bogglingly-old Jurassic exhibits (how can you get your head around something being 150 million years old?), there were two other exhibitions of particular note. There is a beautifully-curated new exhibition about feathers, and another on wildlife within Berlin. The array of dramatically different single feathers was exquisite, some shown here with a shadow film of birds in flight behind it.
The display of wildlife in Berlin showed the problems of controlling wild boar and racoons, and the successful re-introduction of beavers.
