Human Biology - Natural History Museum

We have two children (D 3 years and B 2 years) we are expecting a third referred to as "Project X" this leads to inevitable questions from D; enter Natural History Museum.

The Human Biology exhibition is in the blue zone close to their famous Dinosaurs. The exhibition opens with cells with microscopes set up to view examples (D looked and told me he saw something, I've no idea what!). We move quickly on to reproduction, which was a bit of a time jump for me as it is exactly the same exhibition as when I was growing up in the early 80s with some improvements to the graphics on the video.

Both D & B enjoyed videos of a sperm entering an egg (now a subject of D's drawings at nursery) and a baby growing inside a womb.

A feature of the reproduction part is a model of a giant baby with sound recorded from inside a pregnant woman's womb (see photo). This terrified D to the point that to continue he need to run through as fast as possible; B, however, loved it.

Further on demonstrations of muscles and nerves and joints and things proved interesting to both. The exhibition continued, however, sadly we ran out of time.

What: Human Biology
Where: Natural History Museum; map
Cost: Free - with a suggested donation
When: Permanent
Going again: Yes
Similar: London's Museums of Health & Medicine