Day 23 - A Day at the Museum

A few days ago, we found out that the museum of natural history actually exists, so we decided to go to it. We saw a big sign outside of the museum that had the Spanish word for dinosaur on it (which was dinosaurios).

Outside of the museum there was a market and a park. There were lots of people walking dogs and lots of different types of stalls. I bought a flag with the pope on it because he was visiting Chile the next day. Some of the other types of things they sold at stalls in the park were: toys, churos, pope flags, candy floss, juice and more things like that.

In the first room of the museum, there was fossils and drawings of dinosaurs as well as a big model of a dinosaur that was almost touching the roof (lots of people were getting photos with it).

The rest of the museum was broken up into different parts of Chile and showing the different types of animals that can be found there. They had different animals in a recreation of their habitats and there was this one owl that was balancing by just one talon. All of these rooms were around the sides of the building but there was one big room in the middle. There was a huge whale skeleton, lots of dinosaur skeletons and animals. Some of the animal were: an ox, two bengal tigers and a few gorillas.