Museo del Mamut

Last Sunday I went to the Mammoth Museum with my friends from Cornell who are studying in Barcelona.  That's right... you heard me correctly... the Mammoth Museum!  It's a small place, with maybe 4 or 5 rooms, and it's full of prehistoric bones.  I guess when the scientists are done extracting all the DNA they can from the bones (or whatever they do with them), this is where they send the skeletons!  It's run like a kids' museum, you're allowed to take pictures and touch everything.  Yes-- you can touch real mammoth bones!  It's located a block away from the Picasso Museum and it costs 5 euros to get in with a student ID.  Here are some pictures of mammoths and other prehistoric creatures (sorry they're blurry, I didn't use flash).

Some fake cave paintings.

And in the gift shop they had tons of items to buy made from mammoth ivory (quite expensive).  Here are some cool-looking chess sets.

And mammoth drawings by school children on the wall.