Last Friday Kate did not have school. She likes to growl a lot and pretend she is an animal so I decided to take her to the Natural Sciences Museum in Brussels. A fun morning outing and special time with Kate. We dropped off Elisabeth at school and then typed in the museum's address into the GPS and off we went.
Not too difficult to find. We took Chaussee de Wavre north towards Brussels. The Museum backs up to Parc Leopold, as well as the Solvay Library and EU Parliament buildings.
It was a drizzly morning. We spent the morning inside the museum. Exciting for Kate to see the dinosaurs. The best part was when Kate took off her shoes and climbed into a sand box to "dig for dinosaurs" - an incredible on-site paleontology and geology laboratory for children.
The new gallery is the largest dinosaur gallery in Europe. It contains the famous iguanodons of Bernissart as well as other dinosaur fossils. She was also quite interested in the dinosaur egg fossils too.
I was fascinated by the architecture of the new dinosaur wing of the museum: incredible circular staircases, vaulted ceilings and just the vastness of the new wing. It appeared to me that the new wing could have been an old department store similar to those in Chicago. I will need to research...
Natural Sciences Museum - Brussels
http://www.naturalsciences.be/museum
