An Irish Adventure Part III: Museum of Natural History

We spent one afternoon exploring some of the museums in Dublin. The National Museum of Ireland - Natural History is a rather small building, but it's packed wall to wall with displays of thousands of animal specimens, carefully arranged by taxonomic group. Walking amongst the glass cases you get a sense of being transported to previous era, perhaps the time of Linnaeus or Darwin. It was very different from any museum I've seen in the states.

Canidae (wolves, foxes, jackals) - Maned Wolf in center


Mammals of the World exhibit - That's a fin whale skeleton hanging from the ceiling.


Rodentia (rodents)


One of the many many avian cases - Most of these are Plovers (wading birds indigenous to Ireland)


Hominidae (great apes)