The National Museum of Natural History - Montevideo Uruguay

Montevideo is packed with wonderful museums. Last week I went to the National Museum of Natural History. It’s a small museum located inside of a former prison. Despite being small, the museum is wonderful and contains exquisite displays of Uruguay’s paleontology, various ecosystems, and history of researching the natural world. On the walls of the museum are the bones of Pleistocene-era creatures (sloths, glyptodons, toxodons, saber-tooth tigers, mastodons, and terror birds). The fact that these many of these large beasts co-existed with early humans in North and South America during the Ice Age is remarkable. I often use my imagination as a time machine and dispatch myself nebulous avatar to lands of ancient civilization and prehistory, just to see how things unfolded, but it is only through art (and possibly hallucinogens) that we will have anything more visceral. The first room takes visitors on a journey through Uruguay’s prehistoric past.

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