Advantages: Interesting history, building and contents especially if combined with a visit to Pitt rivers museum Disadvantages: No refreshments and lack of tourist guide information
For a child the University Museum of Natural Science can be a source of fascination or of nightmares. Initially for me it was the latter. I much preferred to visit the University Parks which are adjacent to the museum and run up and down Rainbow Bridge or feed the ducks rather than enter the tomb like building housing “skellingtons”.
As I grew older the fascinating contents of the Pitt rivers museum which is accessed through the University ... ...the scary monster bit to discover the millions of more interesting exhibits in the Pitt Rivers collection.
On reflection it seems strange to think that I was scared of dinosaur skeletons but not worried in the slightest of the far more frightening “shrunken heads” and other equally barbaric exhibits in the Pitt Rivers collection.
My own children, however, are of a new generation and preferred dinosaurs to ducks any day.
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Freespirit 26.02.2001
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