tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3927143376177050152.post78820098016828138..comments2024-03-28T10:59:20.121-04:00Comments on Louisville Fossils and Beyond: Visit to Museum of Natural History in Paris, FranceMichael Popphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16741723962997816729noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3927143376177050152.post-35345404845621854362009-09-21T03:29:06.437-04:002009-09-21T03:29:06.437-04:00Nice gallery.
Exposure to this kind of museum will...Nice gallery.<br />Exposure to this kind of museum will educate people about history and make them understand the importance of evolution.<br />____________________<br /><a href="http://manstouch.com/travel/vacation.html" rel="nofollow"><b>Lifestyles of Paris</b></a>MansTouchhttp://manstouch.com/travel/vacation.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3927143376177050152.post-42306769910507838282009-09-05T00:40:24.999-04:002009-09-05T00:40:24.999-04:00I hope that things will improve and interest will ...I hope that things will improve and interest will grow for invertebrate paleontology.<br /><br />The Museum of Natural History in Louisville became the Louisville Science Center in the 1990s and its mineral collection has mostly been put in storage. It does have a number of fossils and minerals on display on the 2nd floor though. <br /><br />The Cincinnati Museum seems to be managing their fossil collection well.<br /><br />I hope to visit the museums in Indianapolis next and then maybe back to Chicago.<br /><br />Thanks for the comments.Michael Popphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16741723962997816729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3927143376177050152.post-52560889691959167832009-09-03T13:04:15.339-04:002009-09-03T13:04:15.339-04:00Great post!
Sadly, the problem of neglected fossi...Great post!<br /><br />Sadly, the problem of neglected fossil displays is not unique to the Paris museum. When I last visited the Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto), in the 1990s, I was appalled at the state of their displays, especially the invertebrate fossils: labels curled up to the point of being unreadable, light bulbs burned out, specimens unglued from their wall mounts and fallen down to the bottom of the display cases. Even the dinosaur skeletons were neglected. At one point, I was curious about what I took to be some sort of "counter-shading" of the bones, where the tops were a lighter shade of brown than the bottoms--until I realized that it was a uniform layer of dust, about 1/8" thick! Hopefully things have improved...<br /><br />--Howard (Calgary, AB, Canada)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com