Day 19 of 30: Elephant

[nanila]

Do you like dizzyingly overcrowded, dimly lit displays of taxidermy? If you do, the Natural History Museum in Gothenburg, Sweden, is the place for you.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Have to admit that I don't........

[nanila]

This should not be on your list of top ten things in Gothenburg to do, then, for sure!

[pbristow]

=:oo

[pbristow]

Did you remember to address it? I'm told one should *always* address the elephant in the room.

[nanila]

Heh, no, but I'm 99% certain Keiki will have said, HELLO ELEPHANT, as he is quite fond of greeting stuffed animals.

[silveradept]

That is a lot of stuffed stuff stuffed in there.

[nanila]

This was one of the less stuffed rooms. The one with the birds was overwhelming!

[silveradept]

Oh, goodness. Stuffed birds everywhere seems like color overwhelm.

[emelbe]

I do! I do!

[nanila]

You would have loved this place. It was old-school NHM, in the best way.

[st_aurafina]

It looks weirdly Potter-esque to me, how stranged. Or something from some high-end YA production of some sort. It's kind of cool!

[nanila]

It does look like a film set! Pretty much all the rooms did. They have very much not been recently refurbished, although it all seems quite well looked after.

[askygoneonfire]

Veeeeery similar vibe to the Museum of Natural History in Dublin. Initially it was kooky, then it was just an overwhelming festival of death. Taxidermy is weird like that.

[nanila]

Yes, yes it is like the Dublin NHM! Humuhumu even said that, having been to both, because she is an absurdly well travelled seven year old, as I regularly remind her (she loves that, ha).

[novel_machinist]

Oh man, that's an eerie shot.

[nanila]

The very weird lighting in there helped(?!).