Mesozoic Mind

In Montreal, there is a place I wanted to visit but only got the chance to last February when I went with my parents while in the city. Yes, it's a museum. The Redpath Museum . In fact its the oldest purpose-built musuem building in Canada, just so you know, starting in 1882. It's also home to Hans Larrson of Dino Lab fame, even saw his office there (though not him). The first floor doesn't have much to it, though there is a general theme of marine life. Most prominent is a small hall called Creatures from the Deep with various marine tetrapods, from whales to marine reptiles to the extinct Stellar's Sea Cow. The exhibit is pretty nice, with a pretty good selection of taxa organised around one theme in eyecatching ways, reminiscent of those galleries in many british museums (including the NHM). While I can't really remember any details in the signage, I didn't mind them. There are a few other cabinets on this floor, lik one with a fossil fish among other specim