No class until 3 today so I decided to go to the W.A. Museum and check it out. The W.A. Museum is actually a series os museums, kinda like the Smithsonian, but spread around Western Australia, so there's the one I went to today in downtown Perth, two in Fremantle, one in Kalgoorlie (east), in Geraldton (north), and Albany (south), and maybe one or two more I'm missing, all specializing in different stuff. Anyways, I was only there for a couple hours (I had more time but the place was overrun with school groups and after a while I couldn't take any more screaming kids) but what I saw of the place was awesome. Even better, admission was free! They do have a special Pompeii exhibit you have to pay for; I didn't see that today but I want to before it leaves in September. Hopefully I can convince some people to go with me.
The Perth W.A. Museum is sort of a hydrid history and natural history museum. There were some awesome historical displays on Western Australia (including the old Perth Gaol) and Aboriginal culture but also geology/fossil/natural history collections. I especially enjoyed all the meteorites they had on display, including a bunch you can touch - it's pretty cool to think you're coming in contact with something that came from some distant reach of the solar system.
Awesome dinosaur model
They had a tapir!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I loved this penguin just cuz it looks super instense and ticked off.
Margaret River this weekend...should be a blast.
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