Natural History Museum

What do you do while in London, when the weather’s not what you expected (hey, the forecast said sunny day!) and the temperature doesn’t exactly invite you to a walk in Hyde Park? Well, you have a couple of choices:

  1. Go back to your hotel room and play cards
  2. Hit the nearest pub and get wasted
  3. Visit some of London’s indoor attractions
  4. Hope the Queen will invite you to a hot cup of tea

While my sister-in-law kept asking us about the tea thing (she and my wife had this joke), we eventually decided to go on a quick tour of some of London’s museums. So went to The Science Museum and The Natural History Museum.

Raluca at the Science Museum

The Science Museum was ok, but I think we were a bit too old for the kind of exhibits the museum has to offer. If you have kids younger than 15, the museum will definitely be a really fun place to be. They will enjoy it and you might do too. We were really hoping to catch a movie at the IMAX, but we missed it by a whisker. Oh well, maybe next time.

Some kind of simulator

Next stop was The Natural History Museum. The museum has a lot of interesting exhibits, but I was mostly impressed by the building’s architecture. I didn’t have the tripod with me, but I was able to snap a few pictures of the main hall, in low light conditions.

Ice sculpting

In the museum’s courtyard there was an ice sculpting contest (London’s first as the caption says), so we grabbed some fish and chips and watched the artists at work. It was pretty cold outside, so after that we jumped on the tube and headed back to hotel. We were hoping to see much more of London on Day 2 of our trip.