From the London Zoo, we took an Uber to the Grant Museum of Zoology. I think I found out about this place just by Googling natural history museums in London. When I saw photos of the micrarium – a place for tiny things – I knew for sure we had to go. It’s a little spot in the museum where just about two people can stand and look up close at three walls of backlit microscope slides. It is so neat. The museum space itself is also pretty small. It’s tall; it feels like you’re in a big cube with walls covered in cabinets of specimens.
There are some really incredible specimens here. A jar of moles. A skeleton of the extinct quagga, one of only seven in existence. An African Rock Python skeleton, which had to be prepared on the museum’s roof when the animal died at the London Zoo in the 1960s due to its size. The Negus Collection of Bisected Heads. Probably my favorite part, though, was the wall of mice. Making up the giant wall are 4,000 loose house mouse skeletons individually contained in glass vials. It is a truly awesome sight.
When we left the museum, we had a really bad fish sandwich and then headed to the Natural History Museum to try to see more of what we weren’t able to cover the day before. We ended up making it there only in time to buy some things from the gift shop. Which is fine because that’s where we bought most of our souvenirs/gifts for buddies. The next day was the last of our trip!
This place looks soooo good, I’ve never heard of it before!
It’s really wonderful! You should go if you ever get the chance.