The Natural History Museum

This Sunday, again taking advantage of the Eni free museum summer, I headed to the natural history museum of Milan, which is near Porta Venezia. It's a pretty traditional natural history museum, and very focused on the animals. I could have gone for some more geography and minerals!

There were lots of dead animals, including a lot of great insects. Butterflies are always cool to see.



A lot of the animal specimens are in pretty old, dusty vitrines, and aren't in particularly good shape...



There were some more modern dioramas, with fake foliage and the like.



The dinosaur section was alright, too, with some cool info about dinosaurs that lived in Italy alongside some large replicas and boilerplate. I am glad that I went to the museum, but I don't think I'll be going again or taking out of town guests. Unlike the archaeological museum, that is a place I will take Roman history buffs for sure!