Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia

Thursday morning we made it to Vio's top Venice attraction choice, the Natural History Museum of Venice. We were the only two tourists there in a sea of school children. Still, it was a pretty good museum. One of the main sections of the museum is about fossils and evolution. It starts off with a dinosaur section. They have a pretty whole dinosaur skeleton dug up by an Italian. It's an Ouranosaurus nigeriensis...

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The exhibit area for fossils of evolving life has a cool design.

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There are several sections dedicated to Venetian explorers. Like 19th and 20th centuries, not Marco Polo.

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And they had a Fiji mermaid! Really creepy.

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Overall, it was a pretty cool museum. Not large, but nice exhibit design...

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