Friday 20 July 2012

Natural History Museum

London might not be the first place you'd think of for a free day out.  However, entrance is free to the national museums and on Sunday you'll even find free street parking.

There is often a queue to at the entrance, but if you arrive early enough then you shouldn't be queuing for too long.  On our last visit somebody advised us to queue for the dinosaur section as early as possible and it really paid off, because this queue quickly becomes very long and I can imagine people have a very long wait to view this section.  The biggest attraction is the anamatronic T-Rex. It is very popular but quite frightening for some of the little ones.


Nest of velocoraptor eggs


The human body section is very hands-on.  You won't find time to get bored!  There just aren't enough hours to visit everything in one day.




There is always some sort of demonstration going on and staff at hand to explain anything!

Often there are activities for the children at weekend and in the holidays.  On this day the kids had a go at making models of the mammal fossils.  I was so impressed with their work that we took them home and framed them.



One of the best days out (free or not) you and your family can have!

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