It is Tuesday! Time for Frizztext’s A-Z Photo Challenge. Letter this week is M and I share a few photos from the Natural History Museum in Finland. Hope you like them.
Museum: Natural History Museum, Helsinki
“When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his comprehension; when we regard every production of nature as one which has had a history; when we contemplate every complex structure and instinct as the summing up of many contrivances, each useful to the possessor, nearly in the same way as when we look at any great mechanical invention as the summing up of the labour, the experience, the reason, and even the blunders of numerous workmen; when we thus view each organic being, how far more interesting, I speak from experience, will the study of natural history become!”
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once. – Audrey Hepburn
MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized nations as medicine, and now engaged in supplying art with an excellent pigment. He is handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals. — Ambrose Bierce
Museums are, in a way, the cathedrals of the modern world, places where sacred issues are expressed and where people come to reflect on them. A museum is also a kind of bridge between the academy and the public. — Jay Winter
“Road to hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
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what an enjoyable post! museum’s are so wonderful!
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Wonderful choice for challenge.
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
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Love the quotes interspersed with the pictures, and I love museums!!! I have friends in Helsinki…. I’ll be sure to visit there if I ever end up in Finland! (Also thanks for linking to the photo contest. Sounds awesome!! I’m going to give it a shot.)
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“…museums are gratifying
the vulgar curiosity
that serves to distinguish
man from the lower animals…”
— Ambrose Bierce
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What a beautiful museum. Great entry for “M”
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M = MYRA
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