We enjoyed a learning session on dinosaurs there. The man who gave the talk was fantastic - so enthusiastic and such a love for all things dinosaur! The children all got to handle and study many interesting dinosaur fossils. Oxford Museum is special for its spectacular dinosaur display and it's special place in the history of early paleontology, the home of the phrase 'dinosaur'!
The first dinosaur to be described and named was presented in 1824 as the 'Megalosaurus'.
Richard Owen invented the word 'dinosaur' in 1842. Owen was a distinguished professor of anatomy and based his new grouping on the shared features of the large land-living reptiles Megalosaurus, Iguanodon and Hylaeosaurus.
The dinosaur displays include species other than those found in Oxfordshire.
On first entering the Museum you are struck by the sight of the Iguanodon and Tyrannosaurus towering over you.
Apart from dinosaurs, they have fascinating entomology displays which of course kept our amateur entomologist, Sol, very happy.
Oh, I don't think we'd like that place at all!! ;)
ReplyDeleteWe've had some really nice Egyptian and dinosaur displays at our museum, too. I bet your son loved all of those beetles!
ReplyDeleteStephanie, no, no, definitely not the sort of place you guys would enjoy!!!!
ReplyDeleteTammy, he was in his element. He even got to handle hissing cockroaches.
ReplyDeleteso good and funny to read this as I sent the boys a parcel the other day, which I think will be very popular .. enjoy
ReplyDeletehugs my honey and heres to seeing you next year x
Oh - must remember that when we next visit my sister in law. We enjoyed the Ashmoleaum last year. xx
ReplyDeleteWow! We are soooooooo green with envy. Seriously. I think my flesh has taken on a sort of greenish pallor. So, so cool--and then, mummies, too! Lucky!!!!
ReplyDeleteDenise,
ReplyDeleteYour parcel arrived - thank you!!
Best wishes
Kelly
Hello my sweet friend Kelly, We arrived back on our beautiful farm last night. So happy to see all our animals, they were all so excited. Still much to unpack and clean.
ReplyDeleteYour visit to the museum must have been so interesting, amazing dinosaurs! We saw some incredible looking lizards in the desert of Arizona and NM that almost resembeled the dinosaurs.
I shall write to you soon, just settling in. Fabien was looking at some properties in Zambia, wow so beautiful...
oh WOW!!!! Both of my boys would LOVE that museum!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing :o)
My boys would love that place :-0
ReplyDeleteMy preschoolers are obsessed over dinosaurs too. They'll probably suck their head inside the dinosaurs' mouth too! =)
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