Natural History MuseumNatural History Museum in Dublin’s Merrion Street and see the impressive skeletons of the extinct giant Irish deer. But this fascinating place is not all about the big animals. It is very much about the small as well and you can see the tiniest insects.
All the ground floor is given over to Irish Fauna, much of it dedicated to marine animals, including invertebrate (such as jellyfish) to river and sea fish. Lots of mammals also (such as badgers and foxes) while there is also a big display of birds (some now rare, some extinct).
The museum, also known as the “Dead Zoo”, uses the second level to display its collection of the Mammals of the World. Some big ones here such as giraffes and elephants (bottom) and hanging from the ceiling is a fin whale, some 20 metres long, suspended above the smaller humpback.
|Giant Irish Deer|
On the north wall, there is the Barrington bird collection, mainly Irish birds along with some that migrate here. I was puzzled that many had been obtained by “striking” until I read in the leaflet that many crashed into Irish lighthouses.