A Day At The Museum

Hello Friends,

I am making a departure from my usual posting habits today, and wish to share my family’s trip to the Royal BC Museum in beautiful downtown Victoria. My 5 year old, Charlie, who loves the movies with a similar name was excited to go, but he wanted to go at night — so he could see all the artifacts come alive!

Perhaps it is a good thing we went when we did, ‘cause this Wooly Mammoth would be rather frightening if it was still stomping around in animated mode.

On through the marine life section — i especially liked these species renderings.

There were birds to...Taxi!(dermy).

And sea-lions — hi Charlie!

And bears and deer...

Next, i ducked into the “wildlife photography” section and got the following pics b4 security informed me there was no photography in this section...

And my favorite pic i was able to get...

Next onto the indigenous peoples section

A hand-made crab trap!

And a cross section of an original styled abode:

Then the old 5 cent movie house.

Playing Charlie Chaplin movies:

An old car named Elizabeth

And some rifle action for my
Buds who like the pew-pewers!

And a horse of course!

Then we checked out the mining section. Here’s Charlie drilling for gold — and looking remarkably like the miner on the back of my new Pan Am rounds.

Here he is sluicing... the big waterwheel was actually spinning, it was neat!

GOLD!!! I tell ya’s!

But ya gotta’ get yer own ass up here!

Next we checked out Whaling and Fisheries

And then onto forestry, milling and tool works. It was cool and i was thinking of some friends here on Steemit who are interested in this stuff. I am a fairly decent diy carpenter so this historical stuff was cool to see.