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Jul 14, 2015 · Visiting the Dodo Bird at Vienna's Naturhistorisches Museum. - July 14, 2015. One of the most memorable stops in our trip was our afternoon visit to Vienna's Naturhistorisches Museum. As a child, I was a HUGE fan of books containing pages full of photos of the different animal species.
- More Than A Stairs
- Beetles Galore
- Achtung, Sharks!
- Achtung, Dragons!
- Achtung, Birds
- Mammals and Marsupials
(More than just a set of steps) You reach the second floor of the museum via a lift or up a wide staircase. Whereby the word “staircase” hardly does justice to its magnificence. Halfway up is the painting of Emperor Franz I. Stephan von Lothringen (1708-1765) surrounded by his rap bandscientific advisers. The husband of Empress Maria Theresa had th...
(Image courtesy of the Rijksmuseum) The floor starts with Gallery 21 (go left then right at the top of the stairs) and the world revealed only through microscopes. Galleries 22-24 then cover the simpler organisms, everything from corals to Coleoptera(beetles), with rows of specimens and wall-mounted educational displays. Discover, for example, the ...
(Coelacanth. Press photo © NHM Wien) The rest of this floor covers vertebrates: fish, reptiles, birds, mammals and so on. Most rooms feature an array of preserved specimens, but without the same degree of infotainment (or English) you see on the lower floor. Though each time I visit, the displays grow increasingly modern and bilingual. You have two...
(Gavail. Press photo © NHM Wien) Reptiles and amphibians dominate Galleries 27 and 28. The highlights for me: 1. A Komodo dragon: these lizards can reach up to 3m in size and hunt deer 1. A huge 5.3m gavail or gharial (Gavialis gangeticus): a fish-eating crocodile from India 1. Giant tortoises from the Galapagos islands The tortoises illustrate my ...
(Image courtesy of the Rijksmuseum) Next up are the birds, which grace Galleries 29-32. These range from songbirds to seabirds, prey to predator, the common to the (extremely) rare: around 2,500 are on display. My particular highlights: 1. A shoebill (Balaeniceps rex) with its (surprise!) massive shoe-shaped bill 1. A moa skeleton. Now extinct, the...
(Image courtesy of the Rijksmuseum) The rest of the galleries (33-39) cover our furry (and not so furry) friends, like rodents, sea mammals, rhinos, zebras, goats, sheep, antelope, big cats, big bears, monkeys and apes. These specimens include some TV stars; the display cases feature in the popular period detective series, Vienna Blood. One of the ...
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The lost world of the dodo | Natural History Museum. Dr Julian Hume has reconstructed how a dodo might really have looked © Julian Hume. Recreating the lost world of the dodo. By Katie Pavid. 0. Avian palaeontologist Dr Julian Hume is rediscovering the dodo by introducing old bones to new technology.
Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) Natural History Museum Vienna. What did the dodo look like? Dodos were large birds, approximately three-feet tall, with downy grey feathers and a white plume for...
The NHM Vienna is one of the largest museums and non-university research institutions in Austria and an important center of excellence for all matters relating to natural sciences. The museum's 39 exhibition rooms cover 8,460 square meters and present more than 100,000 objects.
The Natural History Museum Vienna is one of the most important natural history museums in the world. Its earliest collections are more than 250 years old. Today around 30 million objects are kept there.
