We next headed to the Manchester Museum. It was free to enter, and I was expecting a smaller scale museum as compared to the British Museum. The building looked fantastic from the outside though. I've done some researched about the place and basically has two exhibition that was on my To-Do list: Dinosaurs and Egyptian Mummies! These where items hard find in Museums where I came from :)
The museum is about 3 storeys, and run across maybe 2 or three buildings joint horizontally together? And the grand central piece was this whale skeleton hanging in the middle of the hall. I can't remember if Singapore National Museum used to have one of these too. But it's always such a wow factor when I see giant skeletons in museum. Hence that's why I love seeing dinosaurs in museums! There is a current dinosaur exhibition at the Singapore Science Center, but you have to pay to go in. Here in Manchester, I can see them for free, so yeah..... I think I'll pass for now on the Singapore exhibition.
Here is a close up of the skeleton taken from the 2nd storey. Didn't realise that it's mouth part is so long!
The Manchester Museum was kind of a generic museum. It wasn't really a natural science museum, but it does have a section on the animals and birds found in United Kingdom. And along with the animal skeletons and taxonomy display, was a cabinet of humans skeleton, showing the evolution of our skulls as compared to apes and our ancestors. I was rather fascinated with it. Here was a cabinet that relates to us! It's like seeing your family member's bones in the museum!
At the taxonomy section, there were animals found in United Kingdom. But what caught my eye was how they displayed the animals, along with some popular stories or legends. So here we have wolves with Little Red Riding Hood, and bats with a Vampire, lol. Or Nosferatu. Interestingly, in 2025 I also managed to visit Transylvania, now known as Romania, and actually visited Bran Castle. More on that another time.
I am also fascinated but all things surreal, and saw this in one of the small room in between the halls. The room was closed, with a clear glass window where you could look in. But the words on the glass caught my eye " The centre for the Study of Surrealism and it's Legacy"? How cool!
This is what the inside of the room looked like, and I love it too. It's like a slice of life of how a scientist or a professor who is studying surrealism's work place would look like, whatever that may mean :P
I also saw this poster which I thought was interesting and educational! It's a nice way of telling people no food and drinks inside the museum, but in a very subtle way, and full of information too! Well done museum!
