Bergen has now broken the all-time record for most consecutive days with snow - 63. Look at these great pictures of the kindergartners celebrating! Downtown sidewalks were treacherous, so the emergency room was getting lots of injuries. They put backhoes to work and cleaned them all off. The sidewalks, not the injured people. That was so nice! This morning, though, we are getting more snow.
Yesterday seemed like a good day to go to indoor things. Ed and I headed for the Arts and Industry Museum to see the Norwegian silver collection. Foiled again - they were having an opening of a new exhibit, so the silver exhibit was closed for the moment. We changed our heading, and went to the Natural History Museum. Ed went there with the boy he is tutoring in English, and has been dying to show it to me. It is such a classic museum! It was opened in the 1800's and some of the exhibits haven't changed since then. As you walk up the stairs from the entry, there are walls of antlers, an elephant head, and two human skeletons.
You enter the room that is chock full of stuffed animals from all over the world, with the rooms full of birds next door.
But now comes the most spectacular room - the whale exhibit!
It is currently closed for restoration, but the guard you see in the picture let us look. You walk under whale skeletons from 1880 or so, labeled with the type of whale and when and where it was found. Along the walls are exhibits of lungs, hearts, and other parts of whales. They also show porpoises, sharks and other such. Restoring all these 150 year old bones and skins is going to be incredibly difficult. This is such an amazing museum. We hope the current restoration keeps the feel of the place.
Yesterday seemed like a good day to go to indoor things. Ed and I headed for the Arts and Industry Museum to see the Norwegian silver collection. Foiled again - they were having an opening of a new exhibit, so the silver exhibit was closed for the moment. We changed our heading, and went to the Natural History Museum. Ed went there with the boy he is tutoring in English, and has been dying to show it to me. It is such a classic museum! It was opened in the 1800's and some of the exhibits haven't changed since then. As you walk up the stairs from the entry, there are walls of antlers, an elephant head, and two human skeletons.
You enter the room that is chock full of stuffed animals from all over the world, with the rooms full of birds next door.
It is currently closed for restoration, but the guard you see in the picture let us look. You walk under whale skeletons from 1880 or so, labeled with the type of whale and when and where it was found. Along the walls are exhibits of lungs, hearts, and other parts of whales. They also show porpoises, sharks and other such. Restoring all these 150 year old bones and skins is going to be incredibly difficult. This is such an amazing museum. We hope the current restoration keeps the feel of the place.
Nice!
ReplyDeleteThose horns and stuffed animals kind of remind me of...Cabela's!
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