Hancock Museum, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

The Hancock Museum is a museum of natural history located within the campus of the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and is managed by the Tyne and Wear Museums on behalf of the University. The museum first opened in 1884 and in 2006 merged with Newcastle University's Hatton Gallery to form the Great North Museum. Since I am a geek for prehistoric stuff, I couldn't have asked for a better place to spend the two spare hours I had before I met my friends for dinner.

Hancock Museum, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne : Posted by Vibha Malhotra at www.travellingcamera.com - The Hancock Museum is a museum of natural history located within the campus of the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and is managed by the Tyne and Wear Museums on behalf of the University. The museum first opened in 1884 and in 2006 merged with Newcastle University's Hatton Gallery to form the Great North Museum. Since I am a geek for prehistoric stuff, I couldn't have asked for a better place to spend the two spare hours I had before I met my friends for dinner. A giant ancestar of the present day crocodiles lay basking in the light from the bulb. It didn't look too different from the crocodiles one can see playing dead in the zoos. I am glad it did not move though!Giant Shell of a Giant Snail. I loved this area of the museum a lot. It even housed live horse-shoe crabs that haven't changed much in a million years. And, of course, the model of a complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton. I was surprised to see that it weighed almost as much as a modern day male elephant. I was expecting a larger animal frankly after seeing them wreck a havoc in the movie Jurassic Park. Nevertheless, I wouldn't want to be eaten by this creature.Somehow these stuffed animals freaked me out more than the skeleton of the T-Rex. The Elephant isn't a real stuffed elephant though. It is made of a cast.A Giant Turtle. Looks pretty docile but turtles are known to have a mean bite. I am not sure of this one though.A shark flaunting its razor-sharp teeth. Another creature I wouldn't want to be bitten by. Here's the skeleton of a Giant Antelope. Judging by the length of its legs, it would have been a fast runner. Imagine how graceful it would have looked with its beautiful horns and tall stature.A host of stuffed and cast animals. I didn't really like this part of the museum as much as the prehistoric one. Especially these birds that hung from the ceiling freaked me out.Apart from this, this museum had an actual Egyptian mummy and a host of other stuff from the history and even a model of a Kathakali artist. My friends don't really enjoy museums and art galleries, but I love them. And I thought that this museum was much too small. And by the time I got interested, I had already run out of things to see.



A giant ancestar of the present day crocodiles lay basking in the light from the bulb. It didn't look too different from the crocodiles one can see playing dead in the zoos. I am glad it did not move though!
Hancock Museum, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne : Posted by Vibha Malhotra at www.travellingcamera.com - The Hancock Museum is a museum of natural history located within the campus of the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and is managed by the Tyne and Wear Museums on behalf of the University. The museum first opened in 1884 and in 2006 merged with Newcastle University's Hatton Gallery to form the Great North Museum. Since I am a geek for prehistoric stuff, I couldn't have asked for a better place to spend the two spare hours I had before I met my friends for dinner. A giant ancestar of the present day crocodiles lay basking in the light from the bulb. It didn't look too different from the crocodiles one can see playing dead in the zoos. I am glad it did not move though!Giant Shell of a Giant Snail. I loved this area of the museum a lot. It even housed live horse-shoe crabs that haven't changed much in a million years. And, of course, the model of a complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton. I was surprised to see that it weighed almost as much as a modern day male elephant. I was expecting a larger animal frankly after seeing them wreck a havoc in the movie Jurassic Park. Nevertheless, I wouldn't want to be eaten by this creature.Somehow these stuffed animals freaked me out more than the skeleton of the T-Rex. The Elephant isn't a real stuffed elephant though. It is made of a cast.A Giant Turtle. Looks pretty docile but turtles are known to have a mean bite. I am not sure of this one though.A shark flaunting its razor-sharp teeth. Another creature I wouldn't want to be bitten by. Here's the skeleton of a Giant Antelope. Judging by the length of its legs, it would have been a fast runner. Imagine how graceful it would have looked with its beautiful horns and tall stature.A host of stuffed and cast animals. I didn't really like this part of the museum as much as the prehistoric one. Especially these birds that hung from the ceiling freaked me out.Apart from this, this museum had an actual Egyptian mummy and a host of other stuff from the history and even a model of a Kathakali artist. My friends don't really enjoy museums and art galleries, but I love them. And I thought that this museum was much too small. And by the time I got interested, I had already run out of things to see.

Giant Shell of a Giant Snail. I loved this area of the museum a lot. It even housed live horse-shoe crabs that haven't changed much in a million years. 


Hancock Museum, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne : Posted by Vibha Malhotra at www.travellingcamera.com - The Hancock Museum is a museum of natural history located within the campus of the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and is managed by the Tyne and Wear Museums on behalf of the University. The museum first opened in 1884 and in 2006 merged with Newcastle University's Hatton Gallery to form the Great North Museum. Since I am a geek for prehistoric stuff, I couldn't have asked for a better place to spend the two spare hours I had before I met my friends for dinner. A giant ancestar of the present day crocodiles lay basking in the light from the bulb. It didn't look too different from the crocodiles one can see playing dead in the zoos. I am glad it did not move though!Giant Shell of a Giant Snail. I loved this area of the museum a lot. It even housed live horse-shoe crabs that haven't changed much in a million years. And, of course, the model of a complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton. I was surprised to see that it weighed almost as much as a modern day male elephant. I was expecting a larger animal frankly after seeing them wreck a havoc in the movie Jurassic Park. Nevertheless, I wouldn't want to be eaten by this creature.Somehow these stuffed animals freaked me out more than the skeleton of the T-Rex. The Elephant isn't a real stuffed elephant though. It is made of a cast.A Giant Turtle. Looks pretty docile but turtles are known to have a mean bite. I am not sure of this one though.A shark flaunting its razor-sharp teeth. Another creature I wouldn't want to be bitten by. Here's the skeleton of a Giant Antelope. Judging by the length of its legs, it would have been a fast runner. Imagine how graceful it would have looked with its beautiful horns and tall stature.A host of stuffed and cast animals. I didn't really like this part of the museum as much as the prehistoric one. Especially these birds that hung from the ceiling freaked me out.Apart from this, this museum had an actual Egyptian mummy and a host of other stuff from the history and even a model of a Kathakali artist. My friends don't really enjoy museums and art galleries, but I love them. And I thought that this museum was much too small. And by the time I got interested, I had already run out of things to see.

And, of course, the model of a complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton. I was surprised to see that it weighed almost as much as a modern day male elephant. I was expecting a larger animal frankly after seeing them wreck a havoc in the movie Jurassic Park. Nevertheless, I wouldn't want to be eaten by this creature.



Hancock Museum, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne : Posted by Vibha Malhotra at www.travellingcamera.com - The Hancock Museum is a museum of natural history located within the campus of the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and is managed by the Tyne and Wear Museums on behalf of the University. The museum first opened in 1884 and in 2006 merged with Newcastle University's Hatton Gallery to form the Great North Museum. Since I am a geek for prehistoric stuff, I couldn't have asked for a better place to spend the two spare hours I had before I met my friends for dinner. A giant ancestar of the present day crocodiles lay basking in the light from the bulb. It didn't look too different from the crocodiles one can see playing dead in the zoos. I am glad it did not move though!Giant Shell of a Giant Snail. I loved this area of the museum a lot. It even housed live horse-shoe crabs that haven't changed much in a million years. And, of course, the model of a complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton. I was surprised to see that it weighed almost as much as a modern day male elephant. I was expecting a larger animal frankly after seeing them wreck a havoc in the movie Jurassic Park. Nevertheless, I wouldn't want to be eaten by this creature.Somehow these stuffed animals freaked me out more than the skeleton of the T-Rex. The Elephant isn't a real stuffed elephant though. It is made of a cast.A Giant Turtle. Looks pretty docile but turtles are known to have a mean bite. I am not sure of this one though.A shark flaunting its razor-sharp teeth. Another creature I wouldn't want to be bitten by. Here's the skeleton of a Giant Antelope. Judging by the length of its legs, it would have been a fast runner. Imagine how graceful it would have looked with its beautiful horns and tall stature.A host of stuffed and cast animals. I didn't really like this part of the museum as much as the prehistoric one. Especially these birds that hung from the ceiling freaked me out.Apart from this, this museum had an actual Egyptian mummy and a host of other stuff from the history and even a model of a Kathakali artist. My friends don't really enjoy museums and art galleries, but I love them. And I thought that this museum was much too small. And by the time I got interested, I had already run out of things to see.

Somehow these stuffed animals freaked me out more than the skeleton of the T-Rex. The Elephant isn't a real stuffed elephant though. It is made of a cast.

Hancock Museum, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne : Posted by Vibha Malhotra at www.travellingcamera.com - The Hancock Museum is a museum of natural history located within the campus of the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and is managed by the Tyne and Wear Museums on behalf of the University. The museum first opened in 1884 and in 2006 merged with Newcastle University's Hatton Gallery to form the Great North Museum. Since I am a geek for prehistoric stuff, I couldn't have asked for a better place to spend the two spare hours I had before I met my friends for dinner. A giant ancestar of the present day crocodiles lay basking in the light from the bulb. It didn't look too different from the crocodiles one can see playing dead in the zoos. I am glad it did not move though!Giant Shell of a Giant Snail. I loved this area of the museum a lot. It even housed live horse-shoe crabs that haven't changed much in a million years. And, of course, the model of a complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton. I was surprised to see that it weighed almost as much as a modern day male elephant. I was expecting a larger animal frankly after seeing them wreck a havoc in the movie Jurassic Park. Nevertheless, I wouldn't want to be eaten by this creature.Somehow these stuffed animals freaked me out more than the skeleton of the T-Rex. The Elephant isn't a real stuffed elephant though. It is made of a cast.A Giant Turtle. Looks pretty docile but turtles are known to have a mean bite. I am not sure of this one though.A shark flaunting its razor-sharp teeth. Another creature I wouldn't want to be bitten by. Here's the skeleton of a Giant Antelope. Judging by the length of its legs, it would have been a fast runner. Imagine how graceful it would have looked with its beautiful horns and tall stature.A host of stuffed and cast animals. I didn't really like this part of the museum as much as the prehistoric one. Especially these birds that hung from the ceiling freaked me out.Apart from this, this museum had an actual Egyptian mummy and a host of other stuff from the history and even a model of a Kathakali artist. My friends don't really enjoy museums and art galleries, but I love them. And I thought that this museum was much too small. And by the time I got interested, I had already run out of things to see.

A Giant Turtle. Looks pretty docile but turtles are known to have a mean bite. I am not sure of this one though.
Hancock Museum, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne : Posted by Vibha Malhotra at www.travellingcamera.com - The Hancock Museum is a museum of natural history located within the campus of the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and is managed by the Tyne and Wear Museums on behalf of the University. The museum first opened in 1884 and in 2006 merged with Newcastle University's Hatton Gallery to form the Great North Museum. Since I am a geek for prehistoric stuff, I couldn't have asked for a better place to spend the two spare hours I had before I met my friends for dinner. A giant ancestar of the present day crocodiles lay basking in the light from the bulb. It didn't look too different from the crocodiles one can see playing dead in the zoos. I am glad it did not move though!Giant Shell of a Giant Snail. I loved this area of the museum a lot. It even housed live horse-shoe crabs that haven't changed much in a million years. And, of course, the model of a complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton. I was surprised to see that it weighed almost as much as a modern day male elephant. I was expecting a larger animal frankly after seeing them wreck a havoc in the movie Jurassic Park. Nevertheless, I wouldn't want to be eaten by this creature.Somehow these stuffed animals freaked me out more than the skeleton of the T-Rex. The Elephant isn't a real stuffed elephant though. It is made of a cast.A Giant Turtle. Looks pretty docile but turtles are known to have a mean bite. I am not sure of this one though.A shark flaunting its razor-sharp teeth. Another creature I wouldn't want to be bitten by. Here's the skeleton of a Giant Antelope. Judging by the length of its legs, it would have been a fast runner. Imagine how graceful it would have looked with its beautiful horns and tall stature.A host of stuffed and cast animals. I didn't really like this part of the museum as much as the prehistoric one. Especially these birds that hung from the ceiling freaked me out.Apart from this, this museum had an actual Egyptian mummy and a host of other stuff from the history and even a model of a Kathakali artist. My friends don't really enjoy museums and art galleries, but I love them. And I thought that this museum was much too small. And by the time I got interested, I had already run out of things to see.

A shark flaunting its razor-sharp teeth. Another creature I wouldn't want to be bitten by. 
Hancock Museum, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne : Posted by Vibha Malhotra at www.travellingcamera.com - The Hancock Museum is a museum of natural history located within the campus of the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and is managed by the Tyne and Wear Museums on behalf of the University. The museum first opened in 1884 and in 2006 merged with Newcastle University's Hatton Gallery to form the Great North Museum. Since I am a geek for prehistoric stuff, I couldn't have asked for a better place to spend the two spare hours I had before I met my friends for dinner. A giant ancestar of the present day crocodiles lay basking in the light from the bulb. It didn't look too different from the crocodiles one can see playing dead in the zoos. I am glad it did not move though!Giant Shell of a Giant Snail. I loved this area of the museum a lot. It even housed live horse-shoe crabs that haven't changed much in a million years. And, of course, the model of a complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton. I was surprised to see that it weighed almost as much as a modern day male elephant. I was expecting a larger animal frankly after seeing them wreck a havoc in the movie Jurassic Park. Nevertheless, I wouldn't want to be eaten by this creature.Somehow these stuffed animals freaked me out more than the skeleton of the T-Rex. The Elephant isn't a real stuffed elephant though. It is made of a cast.A Giant Turtle. Looks pretty docile but turtles are known to have a mean bite. I am not sure of this one though.A shark flaunting its razor-sharp teeth. Another creature I wouldn't want to be bitten by. Here's the skeleton of a Giant Antelope. Judging by the length of its legs, it would have been a fast runner. Imagine how graceful it would have looked with its beautiful horns and tall stature.A host of stuffed and cast animals. I didn't really like this part of the museum as much as the prehistoric one. Especially these birds that hung from the ceiling freaked me out.Apart from this, this museum had an actual Egyptian mummy and a host of other stuff from the history and even a model of a Kathakali artist. My friends don't really enjoy museums and art galleries, but I love them. And I thought that this museum was much too small. And by the time I got interested, I had already run out of things to see.

Here's the skeleton of a Giant Antelope. Judging by the length of its legs, it would have been a fast runner. Imagine how graceful it would have looked with its beautiful horns and tall stature.


Hancock Museum, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne : Posted by Vibha Malhotra at www.travellingcamera.com - The Hancock Museum is a museum of natural history located within the campus of the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and is managed by the Tyne and Wear Museums on behalf of the University. The museum first opened in 1884 and in 2006 merged with Newcastle University's Hatton Gallery to form the Great North Museum. Since I am a geek for prehistoric stuff, I couldn't have asked for a better place to spend the two spare hours I had before I met my friends for dinner. A giant ancestar of the present day crocodiles lay basking in the light from the bulb. It didn't look too different from the crocodiles one can see playing dead in the zoos. I am glad it did not move though!Giant Shell of a Giant Snail. I loved this area of the museum a lot. It even housed live horse-shoe crabs that haven't changed much in a million years. And, of course, the model of a complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton. I was surprised to see that it weighed almost as much as a modern day male elephant. I was expecting a larger animal frankly after seeing them wreck a havoc in the movie Jurassic Park. Nevertheless, I wouldn't want to be eaten by this creature.Somehow these stuffed animals freaked me out more than the skeleton of the T-Rex. The Elephant isn't a real stuffed elephant though. It is made of a cast.A Giant Turtle. Looks pretty docile but turtles are known to have a mean bite. I am not sure of this one though.A shark flaunting its razor-sharp teeth. Another creature I wouldn't want to be bitten by. Here's the skeleton of a Giant Antelope. Judging by the length of its legs, it would have been a fast runner. Imagine how graceful it would have looked with its beautiful horns and tall stature.A host of stuffed and cast animals. I didn't really like this part of the museum as much as the prehistoric one. Especially these birds that hung from the ceiling freaked me out.Apart from this, this museum had an actual Egyptian mummy and a host of other stuff from the history and even a model of a Kathakali artist. My friends don't really enjoy museums and art galleries, but I love them. And I thought that this museum was much too small. And by the time I got interested, I had already run out of things to see.

A host of stuffed and cast animals. I didn't really like this part of the museum as much as the prehistoric one. 
Hancock Museum, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne : Posted by Vibha Malhotra at www.travellingcamera.com - The Hancock Museum is a museum of natural history located within the campus of the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and is managed by the Tyne and Wear Museums on behalf of the University. The museum first opened in 1884 and in 2006 merged with Newcastle University's Hatton Gallery to form the Great North Museum. Since I am a geek for prehistoric stuff, I couldn't have asked for a better place to spend the two spare hours I had before I met my friends for dinner. A giant ancestar of the present day crocodiles lay basking in the light from the bulb. It didn't look too different from the crocodiles one can see playing dead in the zoos. I am glad it did not move though!Giant Shell of a Giant Snail. I loved this area of the museum a lot. It even housed live horse-shoe crabs that haven't changed much in a million years. And, of course, the model of a complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton. I was surprised to see that it weighed almost as much as a modern day male elephant. I was expecting a larger animal frankly after seeing them wreck a havoc in the movie Jurassic Park. Nevertheless, I wouldn't want to be eaten by this creature.Somehow these stuffed animals freaked me out more than the skeleton of the T-Rex. The Elephant isn't a real stuffed elephant though. It is made of a cast.A Giant Turtle. Looks pretty docile but turtles are known to have a mean bite. I am not sure of this one though.A shark flaunting its razor-sharp teeth. Another creature I wouldn't want to be bitten by. Here's the skeleton of a Giant Antelope. Judging by the length of its legs, it would have been a fast runner. Imagine how graceful it would have looked with its beautiful horns and tall stature.A host of stuffed and cast animals. I didn't really like this part of the museum as much as the prehistoric one. Especially these birds that hung from the ceiling freaked me out.Apart from this, this museum had an actual Egyptian mummy and a host of other stuff from the history and even a model of a Kathakali artist. My friends don't really enjoy museums and art galleries, but I love them. And I thought that this museum was much too small. And by the time I got interested, I had already run out of things to see.

Especially these birds that hung from the ceiling freaked me out.

Apart from this, this museum had an actual Egyptian mummy and a host of other stuff from the history and even a model of a Kathakali artist. My friends don't really enjoy museums and art galleries, but I love them. And I thought that this museum was much too small. And by the time I got interested, I had already run out of things to see.

Trending Post Today !

Image

How to reach Kasol/Malana and top things to do around this stunning hill-station of Himalayan State of India

If you are a regular visitor of Travellingcamera , you must have noticed that title of this Photo Journey is not really matching with what we usually share. This post is inspired by lot of queries which come to us, especially in summer.  One of the mostly asked thing is the options to reach Kasol and Malana . Here we are trying to share some details the option to reach Kasol/Malana, places to stay , things to do and lot more.  Related post -  Kasol: A beautiful Himalayan hotspot
Image

Main places to see & Top things to do around Dalhousie : Stunning Hill Station in Himalayan State of India

  Dalhousie is one of the most popular Hill Stations in Himachal  and there is lot to explore around Dalhousie. This is small and very well maintained town in Chamba region of Himachal Pradesh . This Photo Journey shares some of the exciting places around Chamba and how to plan a good one day tour through Khajjiar, Chamba & Chamera etc. CHAMERA HYDROLIC PROJECT Chamera Hydroelectric Project is located in Banikhet, 7 kms from Dalhousie. The water body near the lake is very scenic and is a popular boating spot. Chamera Dam is around 40 kilometers from Chamba Town. It takes approximately 1.5 hrs to reach the place is road condition is good. Overall it’s a little dry terrain as compared to Dalhousie and Khajjiar. And temperature also goes up as we go towards Chamera Dam.  As you move out from Chamba town, you follow Ravi river for some time and then take right. After 45 minutes of drive, you get a glimpse of Chemera Dam.