Visiting The National History Museum

I do love living just twenty minutes from central London as I can pop on a train and start exploring on any day of the week. David and I try to see as much of London as possible but with our family and friends still in the home counties it's actually very rare that we have the time. On Saturday we decided to visit the National History Museum, somewhere neither of us had been since we were very little.

The queue for the dinosaurs was really long so we thought we'd leave this to last and start off in the Darwin Centre where this horrifying female mosquito caught my eye - luckily it's 28 times lifesize. 

We then moved onto the mammal zone as sadly the wildlife garden doesn't open till April. It's incredible how many different types of mammals they have from tiny shrews to gigantic blue whales. 

We made our way to the red area which is full of information about earthquakes and volcanoes, having both studied Geography we both found this very interesting and the live stimulation of an earthquake in a Japanasese Supermarket was definitely worth the trip. Plus we got 5/5 on the tectonic quiz - amazing what you still remember from school.

Next up was the dinosaurs and we definitely saved the best to last, the animated T-Rex was incredible with teeth 15cm long.

The photo doesn't do it any justice so I'd recommend popping along, after all it's free admission. What's your favourite London museum? x