National Museum Of Natural Science

This weekend I headed down to Taichung, which is a huge city, to go to the National Museum of Natural Science, or, the Natural Museum of National Science...I could never get it right.  (The former is correct).  

It was a fun and simple way to pass an afternoon.  It consisted of a bunch of different buildings with different themes about science or stuff related.

I only went to two of the buildings: the life science building and the science center building.  I was sad because they also have an Imax 3D show about the history of flight, but they told me once I got there it was only in Chinese with no subtitles or headphones.  Oh well!

The science center was cool.  It had a bunch of interactive science exhibits with mini-lessons.  Unfortunately, these were all in chinese for the most part!  Haha.  

Attempting to lift my body-weight while sitting on a pulley.

The highlight of the science center was this:

Most of the interactive exhibits had buttons on the walls that you could press and it would turn a light on or a voice on a speaker would come on in Chinese.  Well we walked into a certain exhibit and my friend, Corina, pressed a red button (thinking it was part of the exhibit) on the wall; a red button that just happened to be an emergency button!  The alarm went off with the red lights up near the ceiling.  We both froze for a good few seconds and just kinda sauntered off in a direction away from people and made zero eye contact with anyone!  A minute later the alarm turned off and we didn't hear or see anything after.  Phew!  Maybe they're used to foreigners pressing that button on the wall!?  Either way, it was funny (and slightly nerve-wracking for a few seconds there)...

Don't I look like the incredible shrinking man in this picture!?

The life science center was cool too.  They had a whole section on the process of life and the history of the earth and a dinosaur exhibit.

Love how they spelt "ageing" through the entire museum.

This is a model of a human egg cell...with a seat in it.

The dinosaurs moved at this exhibit!

There was also a botanical garden exhibit which I didn't go to, but I thought the building was cool.

Also, the sky this day was unreal.

Overall, it was a fun afternoon and didn't require much of anything.

No need of an emergency button for that!