A brief visit to two museums
I just got back from spending the last few days in the suburbs of Washington, DC. While I was there, I went downtown and paid a brief visit to the Freer Gallery of Art and saw, among other things, the exhibition of ancient Chinese funerary bronzes, including this pair of slightly comical-looking tigers.
Later on that same afternoon, I went across the Mall to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. I was hoping to see the "Origins of Western Culture" exhibition. Unfortunately, however, it is closed for renovation, so I ended up in the comparative osteology exhibition. I took several pictures, including this one of an owl's skeleton:
This is actually a koala:
And this is, I believe, the shoulder of a rhinoceros (I'm not absolutely sure -- I wasn't really paying much attention to the labels as I was taking these pictures):
Later on that same afternoon, I went across the Mall to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. I was hoping to see the "Origins of Western Culture" exhibition. Unfortunately, however, it is closed for renovation, so I ended up in the comparative osteology exhibition. I took several pictures, including this one of an owl's skeleton:
This is actually a koala:
And this is, I believe, the shoulder of a rhinoceros (I'm not absolutely sure -- I wasn't really paying much attention to the labels as I was taking these pictures):