Today we get up very early get ready and decide to go to New York, Manhattan by car . We reach by around 8 a.m., keep the car in a parking place and go to another McDonald's for Break Fast. It is quite chill today. Vinu gives us direction for Natural History Museum and asks us to take the train.
When we come out we feel the weather is not that bad and decide to walk to the Museum.
This Museum is situated in the Western Side of the Central Park (Where as Met is on the Eastern Side of the Park) and it is shorter distance compared to going to Met from where we started. We have an hour or so for the Museum to open and we walk in a leisurely way taking pictures.
A corner of Central park on our way to the Museum
We see the ' Strawberry Farm' in Central Park made famous by John Lenon of the Beatles. Vinu had told us that he was shot dead in front of his apartment opposite to 'strawberry farm', Central park. Sad. We cross that and proceed to Natural History Museum.
This Museum is called the Theodor Roosevelt Museum of Natural History . I never knew that Teddy Roosevelt (as he is affectionately called) contributed to Natures' preservation so much in USA.
I am a great fan of Franklin D Roosevelt and was unaware of this side of his wife's uncle.
Teddy Roosevelt is the cause for earmarking places of Nature as National Parks and preserving it and making it a law, in spite of great opposition from Timber Magnets and had to attend court cases during his president ship and won the battle.
What a forethought. Today we see National Parks all over USA maintained so well. (Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Everglades all come under the National Parks)
His father was the founding member of both Met and the Natural History Museum in NY and Teddy took the Natural History Museums to great heights.
I saw an owl which was mounted by him an art he learnt through a Taxidermist.
The OWL
Even though he was sick as a child he got over it by his will power by doing lot of outdoor activities like mountaineering etc. When I read all this about him I am impressed.
Natural History Museum is another wonder which is kept very well.
There are sections like American mammals, Asian mammals, African Mammals, Earth, Minerals, Ocean Creatures and what not. We buy tickets for I Max so entrance is included in it. Hubby dear gets discount for being a senior citizen.
Exhibits in the mammals section.
The show in the I Max theatre was about Monarch Butterflies and its journey from Canada to Mexico. I had read about it earlier. I could understand after seeing the show what a great distance this small butterflies travel and the magnificence of nature. Excellent.
There was an exhibition about butterflies and moths .
one of the exhibits.
We walked through the many sections. and some of the pictures my hubby took are here.
I took this picture of my hubby, as all the other pictures were taken by him .
A lovely shell
Oh these are our ancestors. Better be respectful.
A Crystal
Opal. The multicolored gem I love.
In the hall just before we moved out. We sat there for sometime resting our poor legs.
We meet up Vinu and go back to New Jersey.
After our short visit to Santa Barbara and Miami, it is time for us to start back for Kuala Lumpur from New York.
We decide we will check out the Natural History Museum on our next visit probably on a better weather condition.
When we come out we feel the weather is not that bad and decide to walk to the Museum.
This Museum is situated in the Western Side of the Central Park (Where as Met is on the Eastern Side of the Park) and it is shorter distance compared to going to Met from where we started. We have an hour or so for the Museum to open and we walk in a leisurely way taking pictures.
We see the ' Strawberry Farm' in Central Park made famous by John Lenon of the Beatles. Vinu had told us that he was shot dead in front of his apartment opposite to 'strawberry farm', Central park. Sad. We cross that and proceed to Natural History Museum.
This Museum is called the Theodor Roosevelt Museum of Natural History . I never knew that Teddy Roosevelt (as he is affectionately called) contributed to Natures' preservation so much in USA.
I am a great fan of Franklin D Roosevelt and was unaware of this side of his wife's uncle.
Teddy Roosevelt is the cause for earmarking places of Nature as National Parks and preserving it and making it a law, in spite of great opposition from Timber Magnets and had to attend court cases during his president ship and won the battle.
What a forethought. Today we see National Parks all over USA maintained so well. (Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Everglades all come under the National Parks)
His father was the founding member of both Met and the Natural History Museum in NY and Teddy took the Natural History Museums to great heights.
I saw an owl which was mounted by him an art he learnt through a Taxidermist.
The OWL
Even though he was sick as a child he got over it by his will power by doing lot of outdoor activities like mountaineering etc. When I read all this about him I am impressed.
Natural History Museum is another wonder which is kept very well.
There are sections like American mammals, Asian mammals, African Mammals, Earth, Minerals, Ocean Creatures and what not. We buy tickets for I Max so entrance is included in it. Hubby dear gets discount for being a senior citizen.
Exhibits in the mammals section.
The show in the I Max theatre was about Monarch Butterflies and its journey from Canada to Mexico. I had read about it earlier. I could understand after seeing the show what a great distance this small butterflies travel and the magnificence of nature. Excellent.
There was an exhibition about butterflies and moths .
one of the exhibits.
We walked through the many sections. and some of the pictures my hubby took are here.
One of the big Jade I have ever seen.
A well preserved Fossil
A petrified tree, A wood turned into a Stone.
A cross section of underground was also exhibited inside a glass and how the earthworms and other creatures live under the ground is exhibited here
A Hall which we passed through when we went from one section to another.
A Meteorite
Funny looking animal
These artifacts I found in Indian Section.
We had Lunch in the Cafeteria very similar to the one in Met and so I was happy I had a good lunch. We could not see the whole Museum as we read almost everything written on the display and it was suddenly 5.45 p.m. and time for us to come out.
I was told that there are programs for school children where they can have there sleep overs in the Museums just like they do with friends and what a wonderful experience it will be for those children who will get to see these things in leisurely way.
We meet up Vinu and go back to New Jersey.
After our short visit to Santa Barbara and Miami, it is time for us to start back for Kuala Lumpur from New York.
We decide we will check out the Natural History Museum on our next visit probably on a better weather condition.
Picture we took on the day we left for KL.
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