Vienna: Day 1 - Naturhistorische Museum Wien

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Since the Snowpocalypse is well under way and everyone (or most everyone) is either stuck at home or at work contemplating how to get home I thought this was the perfect time to break out some photo spams: starting with the Naturhistorische Museum Wien.


This is a museum so badass, Charles Darwin rides tortoises through the lobby... Because nothing says Snow Day like Darwin on a tortoise.






I loved this museum. They'd illustrate ideas like genetics and population expansion using toy dinosaurs and elephants.


















This little figurine, the Venus of Willendorf, was the entire reason I wanted to come to this museum.












What museum uses plastic figurines to illustrate fossils!










Scariest stuffed seal ever.


I have no idea who this man is, or why a model of him was tucked up in the museum. But he seemed like an appropriate place to stop

The rest of the Naturhistorische Museum Wien photos can be found at my flickr page here