A trip to the museum

Whooo boy it has been a while hasn't it? I did not write for a little while because i had not done much exiting things noteworthy, since i was working hard for internship, but by now i have done a few cool things that i thought i could write down for you curious people!
This chapter will be about my trip to the museum. Helsinki has a lot of museums, and most of them appear to be art related. And whilst i will want to go to those as well, this chapter will be about the time i visited the Natural history museum. Now people who know me fairly well know that i love history, and the nature part just made it even better (because dinosaurs, obviously).

Finding the museum was...not that easy. I knew what the building looked like, because i had looked it up earlier, and i knew the general direction it was in, but it still took me about 40 minutes to find a place i could of walked in 10 minutes tops, in hindsight haha. But since i get lost every time that i go out on my own, i am getting a little used to it.
The first thing that struck me was how beautyful the building was on the outside. It was old, and pretty big, but had a few silly figures on it to make it pop out amongst all the other buildings.
Coming from the Netherlands, i am used to things being pretty small and do-able. So of course when i came inside and noted that there were about 4 floors of natural history for me to scamper through, i was both amazed, impressed and very very giddy.

Once inside there were multiple exhibits to look at. The first room was full of bones, of both animals that you can find in modern times, like a giraffe, or a snake, but also extinct ones, like the antlers of a long dead kind of deer. There was also a skeleton of a narwhal, which interested me a fair deal. Back in our own museums there are usually dolphin and local whale skeletons, but i don't think ive ever seen a narwhal one. There was explanations and tekst next to the skeletons, but sadly most of them were in either Finnish or Swedish. A few had English as well, but it was not very consistent throughout the museum, so on most things i just had to look at the artfully set up areas and enjoy myself. (which wasnt that diccifult really).

In the next room they exhibited oceanic creatures that had been preserved in jars over the years. The jarred items ranged from corals, to '' recently discovered'' jellyfish, and they even had a few eels in a jar! I was kind of sad that they had a really high shelf with everything on it, so i could not look at the highest up jars in detail, on account of being too short :(.
After that there were rooms that showed biomes that were not only native to Finland, but were more of an ''across the world'' kind of deal.

The last room was the most exiting one in my own opinion. I have always had this obsession with dinosaurs ever since i was small, so of course the room with all the prehistoric stuff was my favorite. They had bits about mammoths that used to live in Finland, dug up teeth they had found, but they also had even older things, from before the ice age. In the center of the giant hall were two beautiful skeletons, and around it interesting fossils and bits and pieces of the time of the dinosaurs.
I was a little bit sad that there were a lot of kids running around at the time, making it a tad hard to navigate at times, but nonetheless i enjoyed my time at the natural historic museum of Helsinki!