I visited the National Museum of Nature and Science(NMNS) in Ueno in the first time of my life.
I went to see the MARS terminal of the ex.JNR and wandered around with a light heart, but it turned out to be quite a stimulating first NMNS experience.
The dinosaur (skeletal specimens) corner was quite exciting for the boys, girls and me.
A Triceratops was flying over the top of my head.
The long-necked something-saurus and the back view on the right with the ribs visible is a tyrannosaurus.
In the more sedate technical exhibit section, this is the giant antenna (part of) the Daichi-2 earth observation satellite. Wow.
Observation satellites are constantly affected by solar wind and space storms, so it’s important to be prepared by sending out daily “space weather reports,” they said. Heh.
Lower your gaze and look at the seafloor. The clever “self-floating” seafloor seismograph floats back up to the surface at the end of its observation period. Huh.
And this is the “first light bulb” where Edison used bamboo from Kyoto, Japan as a filament. Heh.
1/2 size replica of the submersible “Shinkai 6500”. Even if the actual size is twice this, isn’t it too small to fit three observers in this pressure-resistant shell…hmmm?
Anyway, everything I saw was “amazing,” and I was constantly impressed with the “heh, hu, ho, ha!”
This is a large collection of mammals on the top floor of the “Earth Pavilion,” I think. When you see so many different sizes and shapes, your brain goes into “Kingdom of the Wild” mode. Living things are precious! The earth is wonderful!
And switching modes, here is an exhibit of Dr. Gennai Hiraga’s Elektron (a replica, of course). Heehee.
The density of information in each exhibit was so high, and the emotional impact of each exhibit was so strong, even visually, that my brain was whirring from side to side for a few hours. I only walked through part of the permanent exhibition in the new Earth Pavilion. If you include another Japan Pavilion’s exhibitions, and the special exhibitions, it would be impossible to visit all of them in one day.
It was my first visit to the NMNS and I felt that I had to be prepared to visit the museum several times.
After that, I walked around Ueno Park to calm down my excitement.
