Museum: Early Human

After our full day tour around city mall of D.C, we decided to pick a museum to visit. Deep down inside I was thrilled that we finally visit at least one museum. It was nearly 6 pm, but luckily the museum opened until 7:30pm for that day which normally they close at 5:30pm, perhaps because there were many tourists. We went to National Museum of Natural History to see the HOPE diamond--a very popular and most valuable one the in the world.

In that huge museum, there are many, many halls. It's not only about gems and minerals, but they have Insect Zoo, Ocean Hall, Butterflies + Plants, Hall of Bones, Hall of Mammals, Dinosaurs/Hall of Paleobiology etc. But we could only went to see Hall of Mammals and Hope Diamond. THIS PLACE IS TOO BIG TO EXPLORE in just one hour or even a day! My jaw was dropping!

So, pictures below were taken at David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. I sneaked out from my group there while the girls were enjoying taking pictures at Butterflies and Plants hall. But a few minute later, I was followed by the boys. I wish to upload all the photos at this place. So I picked some to share.

 I stood there like for some seconds and it went up from ,953 to ,983! *Eyes wide opened*

 

 

Pardon me for some unclear shots. I was dragged to other hall.

 

So we were trying to transform ourselves into early human in the booth. I also got them send my photos to my email too!

There is an app for iphone and android to transform ourselves into an early human too! Try them!

My transformed photo as a homo neanderthalensis, one of the closest relatives of modern humans.

"As a Homo neanderthalensis, you live between 200,000 and 28,000 years ago in what is now Europe and Asia.
You have a very big nose, which helps you survive in cold climates by warming and humidifying cold, dry air.
You bury your dead, use simple symbols, and may even speak a language."

My transformed photo as a Homo floresiensis, which became extinct just 17,000 years ago.

"As a Homo floresiensis, you live just 95,000 to 17,000 years ago on an island in what is now Southeast Asia. You are verysmall…with a brain only about a third the size of modern humans. But you make tools, control fire, hunt a variety of animals, and your small size helps you survive on an island with limited resources."

About the exhibit: The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins offers visitors an immersive, interactive journey through the origins of human beings and the dramatic stories of survival and extinction in the midst of earth’s history of climate change. Learn more at: http://humanorigins.si.edu/