Sunday, August 2, 2009

The Marble House at Newport

Here's the exterior of the Marble House at Newport (pictures of the interior were not allowed):




Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History

Rocks and minerals were one of the highlights of their collection. Here are two of the many beautiful specimens:




It seems that all natural history museums must display an Egyptian mummy. Its case was exquisitely painted:


Here are some of their dinosaurs: