Natural History Museum visit - part 3

More pictures from visit by The England Project staff to the Natural History Museum, London. For the whole category click here.

Another unknown.

Iddy biddy baby dinosaurs.

The robotic T-Rex. This one moves about and does a lot of roaring and what-have-you.

Anyway, these are the pictures of the visit, for what they are worth. My dino mojo is still in tatters.

Natural History Museum visit - part 2

More pictures from visit by The England Project staff to the Natural History Museum, London. For the whole category click here.

This is the big dinosaur that you get to see as soon as you walk in. I think it's a Brontosaurus. The hall is cavernous and the photo gives you some flavour for what the inside of the place is actually like.

Now this one looks like a Stegosaurus. I love that shadow thrown on the back wall.

I have absolutely no idea what dinosaur this one is. Clues anyone?

I think these are Velociraptors. The base image was used to make this graphic.

Where is the boy?

I'm feeling all nostalgic today. For my childhood that is.

This feeling was brought on by my browsing of various photographs that I've taken over recent years. This is the photograph that started off the feeling:

It's the Natural History museum in London and it houses some of the greatest dinosaur fossils in the world. For instance, the moment you walk through the door you are greeted by the fossilised remains of a massive diplomicoticus or something.

Why nostalgia for my childhood? Well, the above picture was taken near the end of 2002 on my last visit to the place. The England Project family spent a good few hours there and we saw most of what was on offer, and very nice it was too.

But gone had the feeling that I used to get when I went there on a school trip, you know, like when they were allowed. No longer am I amazed by the dinosaurs, the splody volcanoes, the meteor remnants.

Instead the thing that I found the most remarkable, the most fascinating was the building. Inside and out it is an absolutely beautiful thing. Magnificent. Splendid.

And I realise that when a boy is no longer excited by dinosaurs he's a man.

Hey, perhaps we should try and get our dinosaur mojo working a bit. Maybe I'll host a picture roll out like I did with The England Project visit to the RAF Museum in Hendon.

I don't know what animals the bones are from (looking, as I was, at the bricks and mortar) but that doesn't matter does it? Perhaps I will have a guess and you guys can phone in my mistakes.

Starting tomorrow, boys, tomorrow.