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Museo de Ciencias Naturales Frommer's Highly Recommended


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Hours Mon-Fri 8am-3:30pm
Location Av. Cuba between Calle 29 and Calle 30,
Phone 225-0645
Prices Admission $1 (50p) adults, 75¢ (40p) seniors, 25¢ (15p) children
Closed Closed holidays

Review of Museo de Ciencias Naturales

The permanent exhibition of the Museum of Natural Sciences is oriented toward kids and teens, and is reminiscent of the 1970s, with local stuffed animals in glass-enclosed displays of their "natural habitat," large plaster renditions of prehistoric sloths and mastodons, cardboard representations, and so forth. More unusual is the International Specimen Salon, an almost ironic, and sinister, display of donated hunting trophies -- to enter you must pass beneath two gigantic elephant tusks. Mounted on the walls are dozens upon dozens of African, Asian, and American animal heads including leopards, elephants, grizzly bears, buffalos, and wolves. There is also a reptile and insect display of specimens found in Panama, and a library.

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