A G: London Day 6 by Aaron, Science Museum, National History Museum, Night at Westminster Palace

London Day 6, Science Museum, National History Museum, Night at Westminster Palace

~ Aaron

Natural History Museum

Big Ben at night

Westminster Palace and Big Ben at night

Our final day in London (and Europe) contained a few museums and tons of facts. The Science Museum is full of many fantastic things. The Natural History Museum is an amazing ending to our day in London. These 2 museums helped make my trip in Europe memorable.

An engine

A part of stream engine

A locomotive engine

James Watt's workbench, 1800

Old Bess

Early steam boiler

A room of tools
at James Watt's workshop

An electrical loom

Playing with a machine

A car engine

Sample of sand after atomic bomb test 1945

Apollo Seismometer, 1969

Apollo Command Module, 1969

Playing emotional game

Playing a baggage game

Hallway

Glass walkway

A museum (the Science Museum) was founded in 1857 under Bennet Woodcroft from the collection of 2 museums, together with what is now the Victoria and Albert Museum. It included a collection of machinery which became the Museum of Patents in 1858 (mostly of steam and electrical machinery), and the Patent Office Museum in 1863. This collection contained many of the most famous exhibits of what is now the Science Museum. The most important exhibition belongs to James The Watt Workshop, a room with 8434 objects - evidence of Watt's lifelong discoveries and memories. All kinds of machines through British Industrial Revolution are standing here at the museum, including new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, improved efficiency of water power, the increasing use of steam power, the development of machine tools and the rise of the factory system. There are many floors in the Science Museum, and also many games that help the mind, and more. The games are on studying people, power, modern world, engineering, flight, atmosphere, and space exploration. Some of the galleries include very complex things, such as rocket ships, Martian rovers, and even how we all feel.

Working as a spaceman

Working as a spaceman wearing space gloves

and picking up screws, Science Museum

A building of the

Natural History Museum

A building of the

Natural History Museum

A building of the

Natural History Museum

A building of the

Natural History Museum

A building of the

Natural History Museum

The escalator of the Natural History Museum

The escalator through
a model of the world

A Stegosaurus skeleton

On the other side of the museum as the escalator

The escalator

Pele's hair

Basalt

Video about earthquakes

An experiment

Cases with fossils in them

A diamond

Glass from the Louvre Pyramid

A whale skeleton

Hallway

walking towards

dinosauras exhibition

Hallway

The Natural History Museum is right next door to the Science Museum. The foundation of the collection was that of the Ulster doctor Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753), who allowed his significant collections to be purchased by the British Government at a price well below their market value at the time. This purchase was funded by a lottery. Sloane's collection, which included dried plants, and animal and human skeletons, was initially housed in Montagu House, Bloomsbury, in 1756, which was the home of the British Museum. In 1986, the adjacent Geological Museum of the British Geological Survey, which had long competed for the limited space available in the area, became part of the Natural History Museum. There are exhibits on dinosaurs, reptiles, and about most things related to natural history.

Fossils of marine reptiles
from the age of dinosaurs

A T. Rex and Triceratops skull

Dino eggs

A meat-eating dinosaur head

Triceratops's brow horn

Model of legs

Animatronic of T. Rex

My most favorite in all of the exhibits in the Natural History Museum is the dinosaur exhibit with towering fossils of dinosaurs and moving robots of a T. Rex and some Deinonychus. Many dino skeletons lay there, with some models of how they may have moved when they were alive. Another activity in the exhibit is finding how efficient different ways of moving around. Sprawling was slow, legs partly tucked under the body was good for short distances, and legs completely under the body was the best overall. One of the best things in this exhibit is the first fossil ever found from a Tyrannosaurus rex, better known as the T. Rex. The most complete Stegosaurus skeleton unearthed yet is housed here, too. An Iguanodon and a Triceratops are housed in this wonderful exhibit, along with a large meat-eater called the Baryonyx. An Oviraptor egg, a Daspletosaurus tooth, and a Euoplocephalus tail club are all some stars in the exhibit.

T-Rex at Natural History Museum

Walking as a dinosaur

Natural History Museum

2 museums and tons of facts can let me find the perfect day. The Science Museum has helped me learn many new things. The Natural History Museum is simply just an awesome ending to this day. A full day of museums visiting make it the best day I ever had yet!