Whip-Whip-Whipple Museum!

Today we went to the Whipple Museum. It's all about the history of science! The Whipple Museum is in a set of buildings that were once the Cavendish Laboratories. Some pretty amazing things were discovered there, including the structure of DNA! I'm not really sure what DNA is, but Daddy says it's something to do with our genetics and blood.

My favorite thing was a model of a clock. It's small compared to what the real clock is like, but it was really cool. You can see how the seconds tick by on a clock! Daddy held me up so I could see it and we watching at least 96 seconds tick by.

Besides the clock, there were a bunch of old microscopes. Including one of the first microscopes that an important man named Charles Darwin bought. Daddy told me that Darwin was one of the first guys to talk about evolution and that he studied animals. I don't know anything about evolution, but I LOVE animals, so I'm sure we would have been friends. 

Upstairs, they have a whole collection of globes. That's when I knew this really was a museum designed for Daddy! Daddy loves science and he loves maps and globes. They had some really, really old globes there. One of Daddy's favorites was made out of slate--the continents were outlined, but you could fill in the countries with chalk!

Mummy likes this museum, too, because it's about the history of science, not just science. She found a cool display of horse jaws that showed each stage of a horse's life and how their teeth change. But I think her favorite part was the "Victorian Parlor." They had everything set up how a parlor would be during the Victorian times. She made me put on a silly hat--actually, I look pretty good, don't I?