Natural History Museum

London has lots of museums to visit. You just have to choose the ones that are of interest to you.

I went along with WY and Jeremy to the Natural History Museum one weekend. An exhibition called 'The Deep' was on so we decided to go have a look.

The Deep exhibition has fascinating views of what the deep sea is really like from the surface all the way down to 11km below. As you walk in, you're greeted with an almost pitch black room with moody blue lighting to guide you around. Your first insight to 'the deep' is a wall of glass jars containing unusual and somewhat alien-like looking sea specimens that have been found at the very deep levels of the sea.

Above our heads was a huge roataing globe of the world. It went through two phases.

First showing the currents...

... and then the depth of the sea around the world.

On one of the walls it showed how deep the sea is and what animals can survive depending on the depth.

There was lots more but it was hard for me to take good photos due to the lack of lighting. The Deep exhibition was only part of the museum. They also had a butterfly house which I wanted to go to but didn't have time. There was a mini beast exhibition which I thought would be perfect for a school excursion.

After visiting the museum, I now know what I would have like to become if I couldn't be a teacher. A biologist. :)