The Zoology Museum in Cambridge is now fully open!
(Okay, that's been true for a couple of months, but I've been a bit run down and gotten behind.)
The lower-ground-mezzanine-middling-whatever-the-pit-is-called was open for a few months n 2018 before the grand re-opening by Sir Wonderful David Attenborough and the unveiling of the upper-middle-ground- level-after-going-up-the-stairs level rest of the museum. And, though it's taken a while, boy was it worth the wait!
Gorgeous displays surround you as soon as you walk in. Local butterfly collections never looked so good! Fish, cleaned to the bone (hopefully by local cats) also show their faces. With their family tree (cladograms), which I've noted before are a very welcome and prominent educational feature throughout the museum.
If you remember to look up for the hanging whale skeletons, you'll also get the treat of video clips of manta rays or jellyfish swimming along the ceiling.
It is worth looking up in all sorts of places. As you enter the museum, if you tear your eyes away from the blond (faded) black wildebeest, and the dodo skeletons - just over the entrance (near the big 21m fin whale who sits at eye level with the cafe, over the shop.... oh so much to see!) is a display of some flying things.
And I couldn't leave without some octopodes. I love those guys. And their other alien looking friends!
Maybe I'll see you there - I volunteer in the galleries!
