FIELD TRIP NOTICES
MARCH
IGA EXCURSION Saturday 6th March, 2010
Nigel Monaghan, Keeper, National Museum of Ireland, Natural History, will lead IGA members on a tour of:
THE DEAD ZOO EXHIBITION
VENUE: Riding School, National Museum of Ireland Decorative Arts & History, Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin 7.
TIME: 10.00am (meet in museum exhibition reception, beside the shop)
The exhibition is a selection of geological and zoological exhibits, some from the real Dead Zoo, the Natural History Museum on Merrion Street, others from the rarely seen geological collections, mostly stored at Beggars Bush, behind the GSI. The exhibition at Collins Barracks includes meteorites and rocks from the Moon and Mars, ice age fossils, a variety of rocks, minerals and fossils, and a special section on evolution that features insects collected by Darwin, replicas of human ancestors and their relatives, and some of the oldest fossils in the world.