Milan Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum, which is in Italy also known as the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, is a museum dedicated to both ancient animals and earth sciences. If you ever wondered when dinosaurs roamed the earth you will be happy to know the museum even has an extensive collection of dinosaur fossils. The pride of the collection is of course the large Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton that protects the museum against unwanted intruders. Although it also has other amusing creatures like an armadillo called a Glyptodon that can grow to the size of a car.

On top of that you will also see skeletons of mammals, reptiles and fossils of other creatures. It also has a wide array of strange minerals that can be observed. The museum further has a section dedicated to humans and how the lived in their environment, where you can for example find a cro magnon skull. A nice touch is that this museum also has an abundance of recreated settings where you can see the scenery in which animals originally lived.

If you want to surprise yourself and the kids in Milan then this museum is certainly worth a visit, with some rare items and imposing creatures that you normally only see on television.