Natural History Museum

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  • Address
    Chaussée St, city centre
  • Phone
    212 0639

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Lonely Planet review

There's only one real attraction at the small but proud Natural History Museum and that's to see the famous - though somewhat grubby - reconstruction of a dodo. Scottish scientists assembled the curious-looking bird in the late 19th century, using the only complete dodo skeleton in existence. The rest of the museum's three halls get marks for trying, but the majority of the other exhibits are a sad testimony to the fact that fish don't readily lend themselves to the process of taxidermy.

Look out, however, for the stuffed birds, including the solitaire and red rail, both also now extinct.