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Tues-Fri 9.30am-4.45pm, Sat & Sun 10am-6pm; ?3.70. www.natural.sciences.net. Metro: Trone . The Museum des Sciences Naturelles , just along the street from the Musee Wiertz, at rue Vautier 29, holds the city's natural history collection. It's a large, sprawling museum divided into fifteen clearly signed areas, each of which focuses on a particular aspect of the natural world, and several of which try to be child-friendly - robotic dinosaurs and suchlike. The dinosaur section is, indeed, the most impressive, featuring iguanodons whose skeletons parade across the ground floor. Iguanodons were two-legged herbivores who grazed in herds and a whole group of them was discovered in the coal mines of Hainaut in the late nineteenth century. Other museum highlights include a first-rate collection of tropical shells, an insect room, a section comparing the Arctic and Antarctic, and a whale gallery featuring eighteen skeletons, including the enormous remains of a blue whale.
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