In the Bible God orders Noah to build a ship. A male and a female of every animal on earth will come to that ship and when the big flood comes all life will be drowned apart from the ones saved on the Ark.
Visiting the Museum of Natural history, Naturalis, in Leiden (The Netherlands, half an hour under the capital Amsterdam) reminded me of that story. The museum is recently renovated and the building itself is gorgeous with materials related to formations in nature.
When you walk into the exhibit areas it is like passing a parade of all kind of animals and that reminded me of the tale about Noah.
Higher up they have a huge selection of dinosaur bones. My neighbour and I were in awe when we realised that one little vertibrae of the beast's backbone was larger than our hand.
Http://www.naturalis.nl
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