Natural History Museums

[paul m]

A very good museum in La Rochelle.

Allegedly the floor on geology/palaeontology is very good, but closed at the moment. Most of the rest of the building seems to have been renovated fairly recently. Seems to be a bit of a nationwide phenomenon - most of the museum, especially the vivarium, at Tours was closed for work; and the whole museum in Bordeaux.

[paul m]

Nottingham has a small but good in parts NHM in Woolaton Hall:

including very good, recently reorganised sections on mineralogy and entomology

[paul m]

This might be of interest if you're in Tokyo:
Meguro Parasitological Museum : About Us
Makes you wonder what you'd buy in the shop or whether you'd risk the restaurant .....

[chris butterworth]

Liverpool World Museum has a fairly good Natural History section ( far better stuff 'out the back' - which I suppose is common to all ) and really helpful staff. If you take something really weird in then someone will know what it is.

Originally Posted by paul m

This might be of interest if you're in Tokyo:
Meguro Parasitological Museum : About Us
Makes you wonder what you'd buy in the shop or whether you'd tisk the restaurant .....

Scarily fascinating, but, you come out thinking you're dying of all kinds of nasty stuff

Chris

[paul m]

Must try that the next time I'm out West!

Originally Posted by chris butterworth

Liverpool World Museum has a fairly good Natural History section ( far better stuff 'out the back' - which I suppose is common to all ) and really helpful staff. If you take something really weird in then someone will know what it is.



Scarily fascinating, but, you come out thinking you're dying of all kinds of nasty stuff

Chris

[paul m]

Edinburgh doesn't have a dedicated Natural History Museum but there's a lot of good stuff in the National Museum of Scotland. National Museum of Scotland

On a good day it's worth going up to the roof of the new block which has been 'furnished' with vegetation, past and present, of Edinburgh and the Lothians.