I loved visiting the Natural History Museum when I was young and it is a great place to take MiniMe at the weekend. We usually start with a walk around the dinosaur exhibit with MiniMe leading the way as he tries his best to read all the dinosaur names. This is usually the busiest section of the museum as the queue of peoples slows down as it reaches the moving Tyrannosaurus Rex but MiniMe loves to watch the dinosaur turning to face everyone so we always crawl around with everyone else.

Dinosaur skeleton at the Natural History Museum, London

I was hoping to get tickets for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition on our latest visit but I left it too late as usual and all the tickets had been snapped up. So we took a walk around the human body section this time, which I was sure would prompt some ‘interesting’ questions from MiniMe, but he was quite happy looking around by himself. We did group together to compare thumb shapes as we learnt that certain parent combinations will create either a straight or curved thumb. I have a straight thumb, Mrs danyul has a curved thumb, and MiniMe has a straight thumb as correctly predicted from the display.

Next up was a walk around the bug section which MiniMe always likes; especially the ant colony who are busy cutting leaves and crossing back across a bridge with their bounty sticking up in the air. We finished our latest visit by walking around the Earth display where we learnt how the water cycle replenished water around the world. We were approaching the museum closing time so MiniMe chose to have a quick look around the close-by Science Museum.

Science Museum, London

We were very tempted to pay and look at the Japan Car exhibition but with the museum approaching closing time we felt that we would be better coming back when we had more time. This area is a fantastic area of London to visit and there are many more museums all within walking distance.