Natural History Museum

Frommer's Review

This is a good place to take a long look backward at museums, because this is a quintessential Victorian museum. Inside its cold, stone walls, stuffed and mounted creatures are stored inside polished wooden cabinets in precisely the manner in which they would have been displayed in the 19th century. It's an interesting if somewhat bizarre place in which you can gaze into the lifeless glass eyes of thousands of species, the stuffing of which must have kept hundreds of taxidermists busy for decades. In addition to presenting the zoological history of Ireland, it contains examples of major animal groups from around the world, including some that are now rare or extinct (perhaps if they hadn't killed them all and stuffed them full of cotton . . . but, never mind). The Blaschka glass models of marine animals are a big attraction.

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