In the eye of the beholder
For those how have a chance, I do recommend a visit to the Swedish Natural History Museum in Stockholm. The museum has a world class exhibition about the Swedish nature. The exhibition is a very good example of how you can make a modern exhibition that have something for all ages, for those how want to learn and for those how just want to see beautiful dioramas. Below, eye to eye with a lynx, a wolf and an elck.
At some age almost all children have an interest in dinosaurs. One of the dinosaur favourites at the museum is a model of a sleeping dinosaur. There are more dinosaurs, both casts of dinosaur bones and full-scale models in the exhibition about fossils and evolution. This is an up to date exhibition, but I really would have loved to see what the they could have done with more space. At the end of the fossil and evolution you seamlessly continue into an exhibition about the human journey. This is a well thought trough exhibition that makes it possible to step by step follow the human journey or for those visiting with children have an interesting random walk between mammoths, a diatryma bird a Neanderthal family and more. Below eye to eye with sleeping dinosaur a Neanderthal hunter and the woolly rhinoceros, Coelodonta antiquitatis.
The museum has a long history and objects that are interesting, amazing and some that makes you reflect over the human journey. The first picture below is an iron meteorite – one of the oldest things that can be found, it is 4.6 billion years and therefore older than earth itself. The second is a polar bear, an animal whose habitat is shrinking at a rapid pace due to global warming. The third picture is a foetus of a Quagga. This animal was collected 1775 by Anders Sparrman one of the disciples of Carl von Linné. The Quagga is extinct. The last Quagga in captivity died on 12 August 1883.
Until August 30 2020 you can enjoy Levon Biss exhibition Microsculpture at the museum.
