Canadian Museum of Nature

Giant Turtle fossil

Mr 4 cried going into the carpark, realising that we weren’t seeing the ‘other’ dinosaurs (in Washington DC…). But they had quite a large collection of medium sized, interesting fossils! And then they had a mammal wing, and a water wing (where I learnt how snow forms – more on that later) and up the top, an insect wing with live insects. We really enjoyed this museum.

All housed in a beautiful large castle like building, apparently built to house the overflow from other museums. The glass bit is where they built a tower but it started pushing the rest of the structure into the ground, so they had to take it off. Then they added the glass bit (later) so we could appreciate the form of the structure, and so they could hang a giant model of a jelly fish in it.